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I wonder if this will mean that Windows will ship a more up to date Bash than OSX! Apple stopped updating Bash in OSX when the upstream license changed from GP

• hxegon 11y ago
  wow, so... 2007?
  • 0x0 11y ago
    Yup % uname -a; bash --version; zsh --version Darwin hostname 15.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 15.4.0: Fri Feb 26 22:08:05 PST 2016; root:xnu-3248.40.184~3/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin15) Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. zsh 5.0.8 (x86_64-apple-darwin15.0)
    • y4mi 11y ago
      thank goodness zsh is the superior shell anyway
      • stula_0 11y ago
        It really should be the default shell by now. I don't the see the point in Apple maintaining the 2007 version of bash with security updates when they can just promote ZSH which has near 0 breaking changes from bash
        • NetStrikeForce 11y ago
          Apple can't do that or many people will just move away to... Well, Windows now. Users with zsh as their default shell are a tiny minority.
          • JdeBP 11y ago
            The former is nonsense, and the latter sheer unsupported guesswork. The actual evidence from history of changing shells, from the Ubuntu and Debian worlds where they actually did make a change of shells (from Bourne Again to Debian Almquist) a few years ago, is that it doesn't drive people away in the first place, let alone away to Windows. Even if one did a survey to make the latter not unsupported guesswork, one would have (if my experience of StackExchange is anything to go by) to account for all of those who answered that "My shell is Terminal.app." or "I have oh-my-zsh as my terminal.".
  • jonhohle 11y ago
    $> uname -a Darwin K2523 15.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 15.4.0: Fri Feb 26 22:08:05 PST 2016; root:xnu-3248.40.184~3/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 $> which bash /bin/bash $> bash --version GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin15) Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
• digi_owl 11y ago
  No surprises there. You will find that the tone towards GPL across the tech world change with the intro of GPL3.