Brief download popup

[Daniel]

On 2024-06-12 01:14, Stephan Witt wrote:
> 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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> 

There was no question asked. I just saw the download dialog window 
briefly. It came just before LyX opened for the first time. Then the 
dialog disappeared. (Maybe there was also something about it taking 
longer than expected but I am not sure.)

Daniel