MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with Ivy Bridge

Re:MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with... by X-Istence on Monday June 11, 2012 @05:05PM (#4096989)

Apple decoupled the compiler/command line tools from Xcode specifically so that projects like MacPorts and HomeBrew can continue to exist on the Apple platform. There was a post on this a while back on HN!

I absolutely love HomeBrew, it is modeled a lot after MacPorts/FreeBSD ports tree and provides a way to compile packages from source (some are even hosted as bottles... no compiling required). It is an excellent tool to download and install libraries and do development with. Will Apple keep all those tools around? Only time will tell, but so far it is looking good and I don't think it is in their best interest to move away from it.

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Re:MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with... by msutherl on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @12:48AM (#4098841)

I like Homebrew to, but compare it to Arch Linux's package manager and user community and you'll see that it's far from competitive.

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Re:MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with... by X-Istence on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @02:44AM (#4099155)

I am glad I don't have to deal with yaourt or pacman anymore :P

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Re:MacBook Pro gets Retina Display; MacBook Air updated with... by gcr on Sunday June 24, 2012 @05:11PM (#4154267)

How come? Instability? Couldn't find packgaes you wanted? Hard to use? Something else?

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