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I use homebrew "for quickly assembling or installing your machine with all software automatically updated" and really have nothing to complain about. Mac OS X s
by eddieplan9 15y ago
I use homebrew "for quickly assembling or installing your machine with all software automatically updated" and really have nothing to complain about. Mac OS X ships things like Python and Ruby, not because Apple envisions you will use those things to build custom applications but because there are system tools that depend on them. That's why upgrading these system packages too aggressively is a bad idea, even on Linux (and that's why RHEL is still on Python 2.4). You always have cleaner way to get and use newer versions of almost all packages without breaking the system.
- div 15y agoI was lost without apt for a while too until I discovered homebrew. The list of packages available in homebrew is growing at a pretty crazy rate as well. It's currently the most forked project on github (https://github.com/popular/forked https://github.com/popular/forked).
- alexis-d 15y agoI don't see why upgrading packages (like Python or Ruby) is a bad idea. For instance I have Python 2 & 3 installed on my laptops (Arch Linux) and it just works well.
- rbanffy 15y agoI know I can coerce OSX into being a Unix-developer-friendly OS, but, unless you require the hardware it comes bundled with or some specific feature only OSX provides, why not start with a more server-like OS? Most of the servers I deploy to run Linux. If I develop and test everyday under Linux, I'll have less surprises when I deploy to production.