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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by kccqzy on Monday April 02, 2018 @03:44PM (#16738504)
By definition, if the maintainer of some OSS software doesn't have the time/energy/willingness to make the software run on Apple's new chip, you can do it yourself.
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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by thothamon on Monday April 02, 2018 @03:55PM (#16738637)
True, but right now I don't have to do it myself. Things like brew just work. If the proposal is to throw away something that works, and add the burden of doing it myself to my to-do list, that doesn't sound at all appealing.
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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by kccqzy on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @08:09AM (#16743854)
Brew is maintained. If there is indeed an architectural switch, you would expect Brew to be one of the first projects to actively embrace it and make things just work.
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