Hi Ben:
Thanks for the news.
I'm not overly concerned with the packages that Apple chooses to preinstall
in OS X so long as it is relatively easy to run the installers for Developer
Tools, OpenSSL and perl CPAN. Probably most users won't need to access the
Unix shell via the Terminal application.
Bob Rice
Ben Laurie wrote:
> Ben Laurie wrote:
> >
> > Steve Quirk wrote:
> > >
> > > The currently shipping OS X (public beta) comes with 0.9.5a installed.
> > > One can make the assumption that Apple plans on taking care of
> > > compatibility/support going forward.
> > >
> > > I haven't tried it, but installing 0.9.6 should be straightforward.
> > > ('configure && make')
> >
> > As it happens, I'm at ApacheCon with Fred Sanchez, so I'll ask him what
> > his plans are.
>
> OK, I asked and the answer was non-trivial, but in essence the answer
> was, yes, they'll upgrade to 0.9.6, but no, they won't definitely
> support it forever - the issue being that having to maintain every
> version of every package that may be used is not necessarily something
> Apple want to get into. I can see that.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ben.
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