[chirp_users] Using Chirp On A Mac

[IT1 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR]

Tycen,

You state: "You can use Chirp on Mac if you are pre-Catalina (due to  
python2/python3)." I am very confused by the comments you make here  
regarding the usage of Chirp within a macOS environment that is based  
on Catalina. I just upgraded to Catalina and would wonder why Chirp is  
not capable of running there?

I am dumbfounded by what you could possibly be implying by this (that  
no steps have been taken to migrate Chirp to Python3). Python2's  
deprecation was enunciated in 2008 and scheduled for 2015, it is 2020  
now and we are just getting to it being taken out of service. I am not  
familiar with Chirp's internal programming constraints, but I cannot  
even begin to imagine that over all these years the forthcoming end of  
support for Python2 was outright ignored by Dan. I've met Dan several  
times, he is an extremely bright individual, what you are implying  
makes absolutely no sense. If this is true, then within one year Mac  
users will done with Chirp since by then (for security reasons) we  
will have all upgraded to Catalina.

Moreover, Brew does provide Python2 I believe (granted, I will not run  
it after this year, also for security reasons absent future updates).  
But, can you please disambiguate as to what you mean by "due to  
Python2/Python3"?

   
73,

Stuart, N3GWG
  Very Respectfully,

Stuart B. Tener
Computer Scientist / FCC Licensed Radio Operator

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