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Re: macOS 64-bit
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Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: macOS 64-bit |
Date: |
Fri, 17 May 2019 19:13:31 +0200 (CEST) |
>> And all users that don't use the two latest releases of MacOS (like
>> me) are out of the game, too.
>>
>> [Note that I'm not a MacOS user at all. For daily work I'm
>> exclusively using GNU/Linux. It's just that I'm interested in
>> providing support even on exotic platforms :-)]
>
> Since you’re not a Mac user, are you in any position to talk about
> what’s more usable on Mac OS *to experienced Mac users*?
Uh, oh, a smiley in the end seems not to be enough to mark irony...
Irrespective of that, Homebrew does not support macOS 10.7, so this is
not related to `experience' at all.
> If you’re not a Mac user, I suppose it makes sense that you’d prefer
> MacPorts: isn’t it more or less a BSD package manager? The problem,
> though, is that it doesn’t fit the spirit of Mac OS very well.
> Homebrew does a *much* better job at playing nice with the rest of
> the OS, its CLI is pleasant, and it’s easy to create new packages.
I started with Homebrew, but since 10.7 is no longer supported I was
forced to abandon it. By the way, it seems to me that your `hazy
recollections' are no longer valid, as far as I can tell. Having used
both package managers I don't see an essential difference in the CLI
(except that Homebrew uses colours and the sexy beer emoji on the
command line).
> A lot of the natural users for LilyPond are composers. Many of them
> are not very technical and won’t want to install a package manager
> when they can get MuseScore, Finale, Sibelius, or Noteflight without
> that extra step. That’s one reason that I think it’s important to
> lower the bar to getting a binary as much as possible.
Agreed.
Werner
- Re: macOS 64-bit, (continued)
Re: macOS 64-bit, Marnen Laibow-Koser, 2019/05/21
Re: macOS 64-bit, Werner LEMBERG, 2019/05/17
Re: macOS 64-bit, Hans Åberg, 2019/05/17
Re: macOS 64-bit, Marnen Laibow-Koser, 2019/05/17
Re: macOS 64-bit, Daniel Johnson, 2019/05/17
Re: macOS 64-bit, Hans Åberg, 2019/05/17
Re: macOS 64-bit, James, 2019/05/17
Re: macOS 64-bit, Hans Åberg, 2019/05/17
Re: macOS 64-bit, Marnen Laibow-Koser, 2019/05/17