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While installing a new version of curl via homebrew is great, I think that this is just sidestepping a bigger issue. Take vim for instance. The reason why I kn
by jjcm 10y ago
While installing a new version of curl via homebrew is great, I think that this is just sidestepping a bigger issue.
Take vim for instance. The reason why I know vi is because it's everywhere. I know full well that any unix machine I log into will have it available to me if I need to edit a file. Now imagine that OSX released a new file structure, and the native vi installation couldn't read those files. Yea I could install a newer version of vi, but it means that I can't use any mac to fix something if I really need to. It means there's an inconsistency in the very basic command line functionality that I trust and rely on to be there.
Things like curl, vi, sed, etc are my fallback tools. If my reserve chute doesn't work, problems will arise at some point.
- coldtea 10y ago>Take vim for instance. The reason why I know vi is because it's everywhere. I know full well that any unix machine I log into will have it available to me if I need to edit a file. Now imagine that OSX released a new file structure, and the native vi installation couldn't read those files. Yea I could install a newer version of vi, but it means that I can't use any mac to fix something if I really need to. So? Macs are used as personal machines, not interchangeable accounts on servers.