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1. Installing Zensical, and the Failure That Hits Most Macs
pip install zensical succeeds on a stock Mac and gives you nothing. A 1.0 kB wheel, version 0.0.2, no binary. Here is why, and the working install.
Sep 22, 20267 min
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pip install zensical succeeds on a stock Mac and gives you nothing. A 1.0 kB wheel, version 0.0.2, no binary. Here is why, and the working install.

We built 220,400 words with it. Going from 3 pages to 203 made the wall clock go down, and the search index it ships to your readers is 1.4 MB.

It read our mkdocs.yml with no conversion step and built the site correctly. Then it dropped four plugins without printing a single word about any of them.

Strict mode does work, on the subcommand CI runs. But it escalates warnings, and the failures that matter most never produce one.