Question: Possible to use without administrator privilege?

glyph / MOPUp

Macintosh Official Python.org Updater

MIT License

32 stars 2 forks source link

Question: Possible to use without administrator privilege? #385

Open wimglenn opened 2 hours ago

wimglenn commented 2 hours ago

I've used MOPUp on my personal machine where I can enter admin password without issue. Works great.

Is it possible to use on a regular user account (installing to different prefix) without privilege? If so, could you please add instructions in the landing page, if not could you please mention that an administrator password is required.

Thanks!

glyph commented 2 hours ago

Maybe!

I do not believe the official Python.org installers are relocatable, however. For example, if I do otool -L /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Python, I don't see @rpath entries, just absolute paths. This is why projects like https://github.com/gregneagle/relocatable-python exist.

I vaguely recall some interest from python.org in doing this, but I can't dig up any references now. If this is possible, I'm happy to add to MOPUp to make it happen.

wimglenn commented 2 hours ago

Yeah, seems like it's well out scope for MOPUp to attempt rpath rewriting and stuff. I'm using indygreg/python-build-standalone in the meantime.

glyph commented 1 hour ago

Maybe it would make sense for MOPUp to provide an option to install from there, if they're proper relocatable framework builds?

wimglenn commented 1 hour ago

Personally, I don't think so. It would be reinventing what uv python install already does, except that MOPUp itself would need to find/get an existing Python runtime to use and uv doesn't.