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Never expect Apple to ship anything recent. Anything outside of their own "core system" that depends on 3rd party packages is likely to be 2, 3, 8 years out of
by developer2 9y ago
Never expect Apple to ship anything recent. Anything outside of their own "core system" that depends on 3rd party packages is likely to be 2, 3, 8 years out of date. Software like brew and macports aren't only popular for "extra" software; they're popular for replacing bundled software that is severely out-of-date. Last time I started from scratch, that included updating git and php from versions so old that it was laughable. Let us be thankful that these alternatives exist.
- DonaldPShimoda 9y agoJust to be clear, though, this isn't because Apple isn't interested in updating things. It's specifically because much of that software moved to GPLv3, and Apple won't include any software with that license. (The internal documentation is very clear about that haha.)