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Python3 runtime for macOS ?

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Checklist

I’m reporting a feature request
I’ve verified that I’m running yt-dlp version 2021.09.25
I’ve searched the bugtracker for similar feature requests including closed ones

Description

All current installs of macOS currently include Python2.7. Apple have advised that Python2.7 will be removed from a future release of macOS (but have not stated which/when). They advise that Python apps should be bundled with a Python runtime.

I have developed a macOS applet which currently uses youtube-dl and will use yt-dlp in the next release. I am looking at including a Python runtime for macOS users. But, I don’t want to do that if it will be provided with yt-dlp (as it is for Windows users). Can/will a future release of yt-dlp for macOS include a Python3 runtime ?

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Created 2 years ago
Comments:27 (9 by maintainers)

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pukkandancommented, Sep 25, 2021

I don’t have any mac devices and so can’t write/test code for this. If you can make a PR to create a bundle in the release process (build.yml), I can merge it

That said, yt-dlp doesn’t use python2.7 anyway. We only support 3.6+. So I believe this is irrelevant for us?

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section83commented, Oct 19, 2021

I’ve spent all yesterday and today trying to test the macOS changes. I’ve tried hard but GitHub has been fighting me at every step. I can’t get the “build_unix” step to work. The GitHub docs are too obtuse for me. So, I give up.

What I’ve seen looks good – only question I have is use of the macOS-11 runner instead of macOS-10.15. I’ll wait until you’ve put out a new release to test the macOS executables.