installing Doorstop on macOS (for RTEMS use)

Chris Johns chrisj at rtems.org
Wed Oct 30 20:39:51 UTC 2019


On 31/10/19 12:24 am, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 25/10/2019 01:18, Chris Johns wrote:
>> On 24/10/19 9:52 pm, Andrew Butterfield wrote:
>>>    I got around to doing a doorstop install that does not rely on homebrew,
>>> using the python.org <http://python.org> distribution for 3.8
>>>
>>> Everything worked fine - python3 is installed in /Library just like the OS X
>>> native python 2.7
>>> Doorstop runs just fine too.
>>
>> Excellent and thanks for this. I think this or the other solution that was
>> posted should work. This means I cannot see any blockers for Doorstop on our
>> supported hosts.
> 
> Ok, great. Thanks for all the testing and other valuable input.
> 
> I think on macOS we have now five options:
> 
> 1. homebrew
> 
> 2. MacPorts
> 
> 3. python.org installer
> 
> 4. pyenv
> 
> 5. wait for Apple to ship a Python 3
> 
> We need a recommendation for the user manual.
> 

I suggest 3. because it is the simplest to do and it does not step on global paths.

Can we assume Doorstop is only needed if developing or maintaining RTEMS?

Chris


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