macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including Python, Ruby, and Perl

Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by jarcane on Thursday June 06, 2019 @01:56AM (#20111966)

Homebrew is not the only package provider for MacOS.

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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by reikonomusha on Thursday June 06, 2019 @01:57AM (#20111977)

Would Apple be in the wrong simply being opinionated about using Homebrew?

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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by mschuster91 on Thursday June 06, 2019 @02:44AM (#20112158)

Yes, because Homebrew's practice of installing packages runs contrary to the requirements of a multi-user system.

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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by wyufro on Thursday June 06, 2019 @03:38AM (#20112367)

MacPorts is sponsored by Apple, or at least used to be.

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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by raimue on Thursday June 06, 2019 @05:06AM (#20112801)

MacPorts was originally started as DarwinPorts as part of the OpenDarwin initiative at Apple [1]. Apple continued to sponsor MacPorts by providing hosting of website, repository, and build servers at Mac OS forge [2] until it closed back in 2016. The project then moved to GitHub and their own servers.

[1] https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MacPortsHistory

[2] https://www.macosforge.org/

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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by anentropic on Thursday June 06, 2019 @04:56AM (#20112762)

TBH it's weird they haven't built their own

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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by saagarjha on Thursday June 06, 2019 @07:25AM (#20113428)

They did: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MacPortsHistory

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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by hasahmed on Thursday June 06, 2019 @02:03AM (#20111999)

Yes

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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by csomar on Thursday June 06, 2019 @02:45AM (#20112163)

I'm not sure why you are getting downvoted. I'd not like it if Apple will opinion-ate and make any package manager a default.

Package managers are for software developers. They are comfortable installing them on their own.

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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by kzzzznot on Thursday June 06, 2019 @03:05AM (#20112229)

I expect he’s getting downvoted because he doesn’t offer any reasoning (or substance at all) along with his opinion.

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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by csomar on Thursday June 06, 2019 @04:47AM (#20112705)

The reasoning was in the question itself. Sometimes a prompt answer is a better one.

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