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Re:Goodbye Mac OS Forge, hello GitHub by daenney on Sunday August 21, 2016 @04:58AM (#12330057)
That, or nix. Unfortunately the state of Darwin/OS X on nix has declined over the last year or so.
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Re:Goodbye Mac OS Forge, hello GitHub by ymse on Sunday August 21, 2016 @05:36AM (#12330156)
How has it declined?
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Re:Goodbye Mac OS Forge, hello GitHub by daenney on Sunday August 21, 2016 @10:17AM (#12331003)
It seems less people are involved or interested in solving the Darwin related issues. I have more issues getting things built and installed on OS X compared to a year ago. This mainly because it seems people aren't really interested in maintaining the OS X part of nixpkgs and some simply lack the resources to do so.

In the end it seems that this will get better if it can attract enough OS X users so that patches start rolling in but right now it's just a few people fighting that battle.

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Re:Goodbye Mac OS Forge, hello GitHub by sitkack on Sunday August 21, 2016 @10:31AM (#12331043)
I don't like the lack of software diversity, but I see running Linux based containers on OSX as a viable solution to not having Nix support. Run nix in a container, create shimlinks so that everything is "transparent"
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