X11 and the disturbing trend of Apple removing functionality from OS X

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Post by codedivine » Mon, Aug 06, 2012, 1:02 PM UTC

X11 and the disturbing trend of Apple removing functionality from OS X
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Re: X11 and the disturbing trend of Apple removing functionality from OS X

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Post by 0x0 » Mon, Aug 06, 2012, 1:11 PM UTC

One can only hope the developers inside Apple still enjoy using the terminal and "unix subsystem" in their work, enough to keep these things going into the future. I mean, xcode still needs to shell out to run gcc/llvm/clang, right?

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Post by ambirex » Mon, Aug 06, 2012, 1:25 PM UTC

"Imagine if Apple removes Terminal itself in the next version of OS X, or decides iMessage is the future and gets rid of Mail.app?"

I kind of lost respect for the article at this point, Mail.app, really?

I see them removing built in support for X11 the same as them not bundling java. There probably isn't the corporate will to keep up to date on these packages and it is better to have groups that will keep them update maintaining them.

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Post by tomstuart » Mon, Aug 06, 2012, 1:25 PM UTC

Imagine if Apple removes [the floppy drive] itself in the next version of [the Mac], or decides [wi-fi] is the future and gets rid of [the Ethernet port]?

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Post by rimantas » Mon, Aug 06, 2012, 1:25 PM UTC

Stupid article. Don't read.

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Post by rimantas » Mon, Aug 06, 2012, 1:25 PM UTC

Stupid article. Don't read.

Re: X11 and the disturbing trend of Apple removing functionality from OS X

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Post by ef4 » Mon, Aug 06, 2012, 1:30 PM UTC

0x0 wrote: post #2

One can only hope the developers inside Apple still enjoy using the terminal and "unix subsystem" in their work, enough to keep these things going into the future. I mean, xcode still needs to shell out to run gcc/llvm/clang, right?

I'm not sure that it does. In fact the Mountain Lion upgrade deleted the command line toolchain from my machine. I had to go into Xcode and manually tell it to re-download the "Command Line Tools" optional extension.