doc: recommend brew install python@3.7 (minimum version) #27130

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   RandyMcMillan commented at 5:34 pm on February 20, 2023: contributor
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   fanquake commented at 5:35 pm on February 20, 2023: member

   NACK. There’s no need to install an old version of Python.
4. fanquake renamed this:
   build-osx.md: recommend brew install python@3.7 (minimum version)
   doc: recommend brew install python@3.7 (minimum version)
   on Feb 20, 2023
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   brunoerg commented at 5:38 pm on February 20, 2023: member

   NACK

   For me it doesn’t make sense to suggest to install the minimum version. I prefer to have users with the most recent one, not the minimum one.

7. doc/build-osx.md: brew install python@3 b2f2951e51
8. RandyMcMillan force-pushed on Feb 20, 2023
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   RandyMcMillan commented at 5:44 pm on February 20, 2023: contributor

   updated :

   brew install python@3

   https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/b2f2951e51b0be370041ec63527bad8fc0dab3ad/doc/build-osx.md#test-suite-dependencies

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    fanquake commented at 5:44 pm on February 20, 2023: member

    NACK - python and python@3 are the same thing (both aliases for python 3.11, which is the current latest version). We can leave these docs as-is, and/or worry about changing them when Python 4 is (never) released. Thanks.
11. fanquake closed this on Feb 20, 2023

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    RandyMcMillan commented at 6:12 pm on February 20, 2023: contributor

    To maintain consistency across macOS x86 and Arm64 maybe the minimum python3 version should be python@3.8

    

    ref: #26226

13. 
    Sjors commented at 9:49 am on February 21, 2023: member

    @RandyMcMillan maybe make a separate issue about M1 not supporting Python 3.7 (I don’t have one, so can’t confirm). It’s just one of many operating systems we support, but a lot of devs use it so it seems worth looking into.
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    fanquake commented at 9:57 am on February 21, 2023: member

    Thanks, but there is no need to make an issue. There is nothing here that needs to be solved.
15. fanquake locked this on Feb 25, 2023

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