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> Apple switched when bash switched from GPL2 to GPL3 Apple just didn’t update. It took them years to finally switch to switch to zsh. > The older bash is sti
by masklinn 3y ago
> Apple switched when bash switched from GPL2 to GPL3
Apple just didn’t update. It took them years to finally switch to switch to zsh.
> The older bash is still available.
Aside from it being bash (a great reason not to use it as far as I’m concerned) it’s now a 17 years old version of bash.
- toast0 3y ago> Aside from it being bash (a great reason not to use it as far as I’m concerned) it’s now a 17 years old version of bash. I thought people liked macOs for its vintage feel? Remember a time when computers could only render a single menu bar in a fixed location, feel the experience of SYN floods, run a version of bash that is old enough to vote in the next presidential election.
- mkesper 3y agoHonestly this is such a waste of time every time I have to argue with developers about installing up to date homebrew (or whatever) versions of the coreutils that I wish Apple would simply DELETE all these ancient versions of tools from MacOS. As a bonus, homebrew does not offer --with-default-names any more and some tools (like make) are posted into different paths so you need to add your own symlinks or add multiple paths to your PATH.