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That also means a huge amount of open source software that makes OS X more useful (esp. as a developer OS) is going to get harder and harder to compile on OS X.
by super_mario 15y ago
That also means a huge amount of open source software that makes OS X more useful (esp. as a developer OS) is going to get harder and harder to compile on OS X. Which in turn is making OS X a less attractive platform.
- mikemcquaid 15y agoYou could make the same argument about 64-bit Linux. It got fixed. The same will happen on OSX. People (myself included) will write patches and get them accepted upstream.
- koenigdavidmj 15y agoThen such software should be modified so that it does not depend upon GNU extensions.