On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Jeffrey Van Voorst <[email protected]> wrote: >>> The homebrew community thinks that Xcode is the way to go. >> >> oooo fuuuun. they're aware that Xcode deploys python 2.3 by default >> in macosx 10.4, right?? > > I don't know how far back homebrew supports. Many of the people are > are using either the latest 10.7 or 10.6.
it's still risky. they're entirely at the mercy of whatever the fucking morons at apple dictate Thou Shalst Have Installed. one upgrade later and you can kiss your entire software base goodbye. do you recall the stupidity that the ubuntu team tried to do, regarding the python2.5 to 2.6 upgrade? they *removed* python2.5 at the same time as installing python2.6, from the 8 to 9 upgrade. that didn't go down to well as things like ooo.... apt and so on critically depend on actually having python like... y'know... installed? if apple decide "fuck you, morons, we're going to remove gcc 4.4 and replace it with gcc 4.5, and fuck you even more we're going to remove python 2.6 and replace it with python 2.7", you have absolutely no fall-back position, do you? what _used_ to work will now completely fail. there's a really _really_ good reason why darwinports, debian and now ubuntu as well having learned their lesson the hard way all make sure that there's a safe upgrade path. apple don't give a flying fuck about you, so relying on what they deliver ain't such a smart idea, is it? l.
