Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ...
by wtallis on Thursday June 06, 2019 @06:33AM
(#20113168)
I suspect they plan to distribute the scripting languages the same way they currently handle the command line developer tools package, where the OS offers to download and install the package the first time you try to run one of those tools.
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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ...
by jzl on Thursday June 06, 2019 @11:18AM
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I just don't see the win of that over supplying the thing with the OS in the first place, unless the commands to do it are a nascent versioned ecosystem along the lines of brew, apt, etc.. It seems like the whole point of not supplying them with the OS is to make the versions less tied down. If there's some opaque command to get an arbitrary version, that's not going to help anyone.