Re:macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon
by Toutouxc on Monday November 30, 2020 @10:46AM
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Windows didn't have one until a few months ago..? Also, the Mac App Store has been around for 10 years, Homebrew for 11 years and MacPorts for 18 years, so it's not like there was an urgent need to build one.
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Re:macOS 11 Big Sur compatibility on Apple Silicon
by tambourine_man on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:40PM
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It didn't, but Windows was very late at this too.
The Mac App Store is for app delivery, similar, but not exactly a replacement.
A package management system must take care of versions, dependencies, such as, this version of MySQL needs OpenSSL version X, Readline Y, etc. Make sure it doesn't mess with Python's OpenSSL/readline decencies which are both different from the ones used by the OS, and so on.