Re: [Gnumed-devel] Update on status of Mac OS 10.6 (darwin 10) Snow Leopard

[Jim Busser]

On 2010-01-24, at 8:43 AM, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:

> Don't get me wrong here but it seems like Apple's attitude towards this is 
> why 
> should we care.

I think we need to be careful to separate Apple from the volunteer community 
who is working to make it more possible to run free (e.g Linux/*nixbuilt 
packages) software on the Mac.

> If you (us) as a software developer want to go Mac we must play by their 
> rules.

No, MacPorts has all along worked to try to insulate itself from the lack of 
control over what Apple does. For example Apple for the longest time was 
running Python 2.3 and also made some changes to it which not even those 
softwares able to run on Python 2.3 would necessarily run correctly (from what 
I understand) so MacPorts made it possible to have multiple non-Apple-ized 
pythons on one's Mac and to select from among these "normal pythons" without 
disturbing the base modification on which Apple depended.

> That means we need to get those dmg images working and throw every 
> dependency into that dmg.

Well. the above would work but I think for production it will be better to have 
MacPorts (which is not an Apple project although I think Apple might indirectly 
support it). Snow Leopard (10.6) was only released around August - September 
and so with it being only January I would be reluctant to be critical. As to 
why bother to try to get GNUmed working on non-Linux, I think it's important to 
help people who use the other OS's that what they can run on their customary OS 
(and more) can run on Linux. It overlaps a post to the MacPorts list I made 
here:
        
http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2010-January/018597.html

-- Jim