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Document why we build from source on macOS
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.DESCRIPTION
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Contains methods that required to build macOS Python artifact from sources. Inherited from base NixPythonBuilder.
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While python.org provides precompiled binaries for macOS, switching to them risks breaking existing customers.
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If we wanted to start using the official binaries instead of building from source, we should avoid changing previous versions
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so we remain backwards compatible.
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.PARAMETER platform
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The full name of platform for which Python should be built.

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