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> I'm not surprised that Microsoft went with this approach to TRY to help it's users. This approach doesn't help--it makes things worse. I see this occasional
by downerending 6y ago
> I'm not surprised that Microsoft went with this approach to TRY to help it's users.
This approach doesn't help--it makes things worse. I see this occasionally on Linux as well. A novice programmer will think: My program depends on programs X, Y, and Z, and if they're not there, I'll download them from the Internet to make things easier for my user.
Aside from being a major security hole, this just makes a mess. The user has no idea of what's going on, and it's 10x harder to debug when something goes wrong.
I do relate to your pain. For starters, I'd recommend not using a Mac for Python development (or really any development). If you must, something like a VirtualBox machine running Linux would be good. But probably better to just make a Linux instance in the cloud.