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Having re-transitioned last year back to the land of Free *nixen after a long stint on OS X, I marvel at how awesome package management is, and wonder how I eve
by peatmoss 11y ago
Having re-transitioned last year back to the land of Free *nixen after a long stint on OS X, I marvel at how awesome package management is, and wonder how I ever gave it up. Even where I'm now forced to use OS X (work), I try to brew / brew cask everything.
The Windows / Mac distribution model feels more like a necessity on a closed system than something that is ideal.
EDIT: I realize that comment sounds more critical than what I intended. While I have a preference for package management, others clearly don't. Also, I might be inclined to use something like this for fast-moving big apps where I want the newest features. I could see trying Guile-Emacs or QGIS this way.
- alextgordon 11y agoWhat OS X at least gets right is that OS-bundled software is immutable, or desired to be. If you want a recent version of e.g. Python, you install separately and add it to your $PATH instead of changing the base. Then any app that depends on Python can continue using the system version.