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The engineering effort required is too far outside their business focus. They've got a very basic one, but nothing in terms of what modern Linuxers are used to
by lallysingh 18y ago
The engineering effort required is too far outside their business focus. They've got a very basic one, but nothing in terms of what modern Linuxers are used to. They've blessed macports as their preferred one, which does a reasonable job.
As far as I've seen, apple will include the latest stable version of a tool per major upgrade (e.g. tiger, leopard, etc.). They'll keep it the same version until the next major one, without touching point releases. In terms of the principle of least surprises, it's actually the way I'd prefer.
The other post's advice for .bashrc is very good, it's what I do.
- neilc 18y agoThe engineering effort required is too far outside their business focus. Then they should stop claiming that OSX is suitable for use as a server OS.
- lallysingh 18y agoMuahahaha, that's just an inside joke :-) Seriously, apple only cares enough about servers/etc to have a complete solution for their other markets, such as small business & education.
- JulianMorrison 18y agoWhy not just adopt .deb and apt?
- lallysingh 18y agoSame response to macports below: Not-Invented-Here syndrome. I suspect they've got the same problem others do: a case of NIH, without the resources to invent it themselves. Ugh.
- Zev 18y agoFWIW, macports is linked to from http://macosforge.org/ http://macosforge.org/ - which is open source stuff hosted by Apple and worked on by Apple engineers for the most part.
- davidw 18y agoApple actually had one of the old-time Debian guys, Klee Dienes, for a number of years, starting way back in 1997. I guess he wasn't successful in convincing them to do things properly.
- aaronblohowiak 18y agoThey should strip out their custom builds and have macports pre-installed.