macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon

Re:macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon by saagarjha on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:22AM (#25253034)

Apple sponsored much of the original work on MacPorts, but these days it's run as an independent project of which a handful of maintainers are still from Apple.

The first patches for Apple silicon came from Apple engineers, FWIW.

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Re:macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon by Wowfunhappy on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:42AM (#25253171)

I was surprised that you said up-thread they use Homebrew internally, though? Do they use both? Did they switch at some point?

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Re:macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon by saagarjha on Monday November 30, 2020 @07:56AM (#25253253)

Apple's a large company, and like many large companies different people use different things ;) Since teams are largely autonomous with regards for tooling, I am sure that the choice of Homebrew or MacPorts for dependency management comes down to the choice of one engineer from the early stages of a project. For teams that use neither themselves developers are free to choose either for their machines. I would assume that new hires mostly pick Homebrew to use when given the choice.

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Re:macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon by rsynnott on Monday November 30, 2020 @09:17AM (#25253911)

I'd assume any sufficiently large and old MacOS shop uses some combination; I don't see why Apple themselves would be any different.

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