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I notice these Mac tools becoming a bit stale. sort is derived GNU sort, but from some ancient version. I guess this might be due in part to these tools now bei

I notice these Mac tools becoming a bit stale. sort is derived GNU sort, but from some ancient version. I guess this might be due in part to these tools now being GPLv3 ?

saurik 14y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3559990 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3559990
paxswill 14y ago
Almost certainly. Apple stopped updating their tools past the GPLv2 versions, with the most noticeable example being gcc, which was frozen at 4.2 until they removed it.