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Re:macOS Sonoma Broke Grep by stefan_ on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @10:51PM (#38108416)
I can understand shipping the old stuff because you don't give a fuck, but why on earth are they .. patching them. Jesus.
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Re:macOS Sonoma Broke Grep by callalex on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @11:18PM (#38108586)
The explicit stated reason is to avoid copyleft.
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Re:macOS Sonoma Broke Grep by epcoa on Thursday November 02, 2023 @03:06AM (#38109931)
Up to date BSD code would still avoid copyleft so that is not a valid explanation.
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Re:macOS Sonoma Broke Grep by jahav on Thursday November 02, 2023 @05:44AM (#38111084)
Maybe when uutils ship their gnu compatible version(deviations from GNU are considered bugs), macos will update.

MIT, Rust, active development... Maybe in few years.

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Re:macOS Sonoma Broke Grep by vbezhenar on Thursday November 02, 2023 @05:55AM (#38111175)
macOS Ventura ships zsh 5.9 which is latest version and was released 2022-05-14. Not sure about grep, but at least some of their unix components are up to date.
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