installing Doorstop on macOS (for RTEMS use)

[Chris Johns]

On 31/10/19 5:21 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 30/10/2019 21:39, Chris Johns wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Ok.
> 
>>
>> Can we assume Doorstop is only needed if developing or maintaining RTEMS?
> 
> Yes, definitely.
> 
> You mean the user manual is not the right place to add Python 3.6+ to the host
> computer requirements? We could add this to the RTEMS Software Engineering manual.
> 

Good question. If there is nothing in the User Manual related to developing or
maintaining RTEMS then yes the eng manual would be the correct place. I am sure
we will find other things that are specific to each host. For example I will
need to add a section to the eng manual on the release procedure and this has a
range of specific packages that are needed.

Chris