It&#x27;s not hat &quot;homebrew install gcc? pip install foo&quot; is hard for us, it&#x27;s that we didn&#x27;t want to support 1000s of people trying to set it up on their machines.<p>Every possible source of error we eliminated meant we&#x27;d need to spend less time on twitter debugging installation problems. It&#x27;s useful to remember that our target install base isn&#x27;t  python developers who might want to hack away on a python project, but rather analysts, end users, DBAs and all kinds of people who&#x27;ve never heard of homebrew and who might not even be comfortable with using a terminal in Mac OS X let alone compiling things.