| ▲ | jonhohle 2 hours ago | |
The GNU versions work fine in macOS. Apple doesn’t want to distribute them, but that’s mean you can’t use them. | ||
| ▲ | duskwuff an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
> Apple doesn’t want to distribute them Apple can't distribute them - coreutils is GPLv3, which is incompatible with Apple's immutable system volume. | ||
| ▲ | mahboi an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Of course, but any script meant for Mac is going to assume Mac core utils, even assume zsh instead of bash. You don't want to be the one person on the team with a non-stock setup. | ||
| ▲ | collinfunk 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> The GNU versions work fine in macOS. Apple doesn’t want to distribute them, but that’s mean you can’t use them. We also test GNU coreutils on macOS. It is a bit tricky since the other maintainers and I don't own any macOS machines for testing. But we seem to do well enough with a shared system that Adélie Linux kindly allows the compile farm [1] to use, along with some additional CI machines. | ||