Re:Setting up a new Mac for development
by batbomb on Monday October 28, 2013 @02:17PM
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On topic:
Apple's support for command line utilities and the whole GPL v3 thing is becoming a serious issue.
Bash is 6 years old on the Mac. For the most part, bash 3.2 is fine, but it's at the point where I have to work with other people's bash 4.x scripts locally that no longer work. If this sorry state of command line utilities support from apple keeps up, I'm going to have to switch back to Linux soon.
A bit more on this, I actually just asked a question on stackoverflow ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19642059/proper-way-to-in... ) about installing bash 4.2 on Mavericks because it hasn't been working so far. If anyone has any insight on this, I'd greatly appreciate it.
Bash is 6 years old on the Mac. For the most part, bash 3.2 is fine, but it's at the point where I have to work with other people's bash 4.x scripts locally that no longer work. If this sorry state of command line utilities support from apple keeps up, I'm going to have to switch back to Linux soon.
A bit more on this, I actually just asked a question on stackoverflow ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19642059/proper-way-to-in... ) about installing bash 4.2 on Mavericks because it hasn't been working so far. If anyone has any insight on this, I'd greatly appreciate it.