Brief download popup

[Stephan Witt]

Am 11.06.2024 um 16:56 schrieb José Matos <jaomatos at gmail.com>:
> 
> On Tue, 2024-06-11 at 15:42 +0200, Daniel wrote:
>> When starting LyX 2.4.0 for the first time on macOS, a dialog
>> mentioning 
>> some "download" popped up briefly. Anyone knows what this might be
>> about?

Which popup?

>> 
>> Daniel
> 
> Could this be related with Python 3?

I have to investigate but I can offer a hypothesis:

There is a /usr/bin/python - not being a real program but an installer 
with the popup to ask the user for downloading the Python3-part of the 
Xcode developer suite. LyX - checking for an usable Python - triggers
the installer popup and continues to search for Python because the
installer stub doesn’t respond sane to the version check.

I didn’t think of this scenario yet and I don’t have an idea how to 
avoid that yet. At least it’s somehow mentioned here:
https://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac#ApplePython

Stephan

> Python 2 come bundled with the OS, but after a certain version that is
> no longer the case.
> 
> Stephan is our oracle for this subject. :-)
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