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> I bet you don’t use the graphical installer on your Mac though do you? Your mind reading skills are terrible. I'm not sure who or what gave you that impressi

> I bet you don’t use the graphical installer on your Mac though do you? Your mind reading skills are terrible. I'm not sure who or what gave you that impression. EDIT: Again, from the node site, clicking on install with package manager, both windows and osx lead off with "simply download the installer" before listing alternatives. https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#macos https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#macos https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#windows https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#windows

hungerstrike 8y ago
OK fine. I see a lot of people using homebrew. What about python? You have to replace the built-in one don’t you?
- Fnoord 8y ago
  > OK fine. I see a lot of people using homebrew. Its been the defacto standard for package management for a while, and it works on top of the base OS thanks to /usr/local having priority in $PATH > What about python? You have to replace the built-in one don’t you? If Python 2.7.10 doesn't suit your needs, yes. $ /usr/bin/python --version Python 2.7.10 $ /usr/local/bin/python2 --version Python 2.7.15 $ /usr/local/bin/python3 --version Python 3.6.5 Same with Bash: $ /bin/bash --version GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin17) Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. $ /usr/local/bin/bash --version GNU bash, version 4.4.19(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin17.3.0) Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. With Python it is a bit annoying with variables but other than that not a big deal. I started out with Bash v2 so that's my reference point. Sometimes its annoying for portability reasons. Rumor is Apple doesn't like GPLv3. I don't see it as a big problem but that is thanks to the efforts of Homebrew package maintainers.
  - lloyd-christmas 8y ago
    > Its been the defacto standard for package management While I agree that it's a standard for package management, I don't think that using a package manager is the defacto standard. I've yet to see any onboarding docs that use brew install, for the reasons I stated parallel to your comment.
- lloyd-christmas 8y ago
  > I see a lot of people using homebrew. The major reason I don't use homebrew and don't recommend it is because it's an absolute pain to use a version manager due to where brew stores its binary files. I don't use python very frequently, so I don't really think much about it much when installing. I'm pretty sure I installed it with anaconda, but can't remember. As I mentioned above I doubt I used brew for the same reason. I typically only use brew for installing linux commands that are absent from osx or for one-off uses of something random. Looking at my brew list, it's things like phantomjs or rethinkdb. I'll uninstall them with brew and use their installer if I actually end up using them.

hungerstrike 8y ago

OK fine. I see a lot of people using homebrew. What about python? You have to replace the built-in one don’t you?

Fnoord 8y ago
> OK fine. I see a lot of people using homebrew. Its been the defacto standard for package management for a while, and it works on top of the base OS thanks to /usr/local having priority in $PATH > What about python? You have to replace the built-in one don’t you? If Python 2.7.10 doesn't suit your needs, yes. $ /usr/bin/python --version Python 2.7.10 $ /usr/local/bin/python2 --version Python 2.7.15 $ /usr/local/bin/python3 --version Python 3.6.5 Same with Bash: $ /bin/bash --version GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin17) Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. $ /usr/local/bin/bash --version GNU bash, version 4.4.19(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin17.3.0) Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. With Python it is a bit annoying with variables but other than that not a big deal. I started out with Bash v2 so that's my reference point. Sometimes its annoying for portability reasons. Rumor is Apple doesn't like GPLv3. I don't see it as a big problem but that is thanks to the efforts of Homebrew package maintainers.
- lloyd-christmas 8y ago
  > Its been the defacto standard for package management While I agree that it's a standard for package management, I don't think that using a package manager is the defacto standard. I've yet to see any onboarding docs that use brew install, for the reasons I stated parallel to your comment.
lloyd-christmas 8y ago
> I see a lot of people using homebrew. The major reason I don't use homebrew and don't recommend it is because it's an absolute pain to use a version manager due to where brew stores its binary files. I don't use python very frequently, so I don't really think much about it much when installing. I'm pretty sure I installed it with anaconda, but can't remember. As I mentioned above I doubt I used brew for the same reason. I typically only use brew for installing linux commands that are absent from osx or for one-off uses of something random. Looking at my brew list, it's things like phantomjs or rethinkdb. I'll uninstall them with brew and use their installer if I actually end up using them.