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On 12 Apr 2008, at 11:10 pm, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
>
> On Apr 12, 2008, at 23:35 , Nick Bailey wrote:
>
>>
>> If you mean the whole packaage, I can't forgive the fact that the
>> autoconf stuff is all broken,
>
> autoconf ? what's that for ? :-)

:) I almost agree.

>
> OK, seriously, as I said this isn't the place for an OS/X vs. Linux
> flamewar. What you're saying is that the Mac sucks as an X11
> development platform, I think I can live with that :-). You're also
> apparently expecting OS X to be Linux (i.e. you have to, or very much
> want to, use X11 apps only). I don't.

No, but when I bought in I did expect it to be Unix. It said so in  
their adverts.

>
> A couple of points where you are totally wrong, though :
>
>> all the great open source stuff is X
>
> On OS X ? Two questions :

No.

>
> - please name one of such "great OS X X11-based app".

Did I say OS X X-11 based? Sorry, I just meant X11-based. I can't  
live without Gimp/Krita (like photoshop, but you can script them).  
Rosegarden (it's o sequencer, only different -- we hacked t :). I  
won't bore people with my personal list. I guess everybody has their  
own favourites. I know GTK has a windows port, so gimp ain't just  
X11, but it's gruesome. We had to patch the source by hand before it  
would build.

>
> - what's the color of the sky on your planet ? 'Cause yours certainly
> isn't the same one as the OS X free software community, and since
> interplanetary Internet doesn't exist yet and I can download their
> stuff fine, they are earthlings.

:) Haven't the Americans reserved a subnet for the moon? Or was that  
just a joke on slashdot?

Downloading Darwinports is fine... it just doesn't install right now.  
I needed it for rdiff-backup, and it let me down. I know, you'll say  
I should have been using time machine, but I've got Windows, Macs,  
Linux and Solaris on my network. And I'm still on 10.4.

>
>> you have to routinely run programs which "fix disk
>> permissions" (?)
>
> Yeah, that's one peculiar thing that still puzzles me. As ludicrous as
> it seemed to me, I figured I could live with it.
>
> Then again, don't most security check scripts on Linux run such
> permission checks ? I had that on Mandrake/Mandriva long ago.
Sorry, no idea. I'm a debian sort of guy.

>
>> It is a good Java platform though.
>
> Actually, Apple takes its sweet time to provide up to date Java
> releases, so that's one point where OS X actually sucks :-).
Yes, it does. But what's there works great. If you look at the  
release notes at the bottom of our chopanaliser page (http:// 
markov.music.gla.ac.uk/Click-Chopin/) you'll see what I mean.

>
>> If you just want to use what you've given, the Mac is great, and
>> total eye candy. But try developing on it for a few days, you'll be
>> back!
>
> That one actually had me ROTFL. :-) Kids, let that be a lesson to
> you : don't drink and mail.
Always sound advice. But I just ask you this -- it's sort of a  
genuine question. Have you found the proper documentation for core  
midi yet? 'cos all I could find was a bunch of example programs. Not  
that I've looked since 2005, so I might be wrong. But it didn't  
spread happiness and joy at the time, I can tell you.

Nick/.

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