[ic] Mac OSX viable as a development platform?

[Michael Stearne]

Robert Brandtjen wrote:

>On Tuesday 05 March 2002 04:13 pm, Michael Stearne wrote:
>
>>Seriously, I have seen posts about this subject.  I got 4.8.2 to run
>>with no problems on 10.1.  I haven't tried it since then, so maybe it
>>has broken for some reason.  I will try it if I get a chance tonight on
>>OS X Server 10.1.3.
>>
>
>One of my very best friends claimed that as well - then couldnt figure out 
>why various aspects of it wouldn't work right -
>
>As an addendum to the perl mods portion of it - I strongly recommend not 
>using the interchange package - gut doing each in turn individually and doing 
>them in their correct dependancy order.
>
>The thing is this: You can get nearly anything to run on OSX, but considering 
>the hassel, why bother ? 
>
iMovie and and Final Cut Pro.  :-)

>I have fallen in love with Linux - particularly RH - 
>and I used to love Next Step/OSX (rhapsody).
>
>I like not having to find out what bizzare build commands I need to use in 
>order to get stuff to run right - hell, you can't even install Sendmail on it 
>without getting errors - it runs, but it's crippled.
>
>As a further aside - you can't even upgrade your own GCC - apple must do it 
>when they get around to it, and from there, you can then upgrade Perl.
>
But you can't blame Apple if the gcc developers aren't supporting OS X 
to build out of the box.  It's not like Darwin isn't open source.

Michael

(P.S. I will stop defending now :-)  )