bpo-32726: macOS installer and framework enhancements and changes for 3.7.0 by ned-deily · Pull Request #5448 · python/cpython

provisional new installer variant for macOS 10.9 and later systems with 64-bit (x86_64)

I'd like to make a gentle request for this to be the primary, recommended installer so that the extension ecosystem can definitively standardize on targeting the 10.9 SDK for the 3.7 release cycle. Standardizing on 10.9 would:

A quick look at some stats (1, 2) hints that the share of macOS users on versions < 10.9 is well under 10%, possibly in low single-digits. Though I suppose the most-relevant number may be python.org visitors -- they appear to use google analytics, which provides a breakdown by macOS version...