Re: [dev] [st] will global-less changes be wanted upstream?

From: Steven Degutis <sbdegutis_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 18:22:55 -0500

>> > The world you're living in is the walled garden of OS X.
>> > It's your choice to either attempt to improve it, which is futile, or
>> > enter a world in which improvement is possible in the first place.
>>
>> I have to use OS X sometimes for work.
>
> I have to too, from time to time.
>
>> It's still a general-purpose operating system, and you can still run
>> arbitrary programs on it.
>
> That's true, but you don't aim very high here.
>
>> It is closer to BSD than Linux, aside from the GUI layer.
>
> No. OSX is not usable for anything without the proprietary pieces. I
> personally don't trust a system that needs blobs to run, and I think
> that's the way to go.
>
>> But it ships with a working X server, and it has a working C compiler,
>> so st worked fine until a few commits ago right out of the box.
>
> Don't make yourself at home on OSX!
>
>> I use it when I use OS X because I like using the same tools
>> everywhere.
>
> Don't make yourself at home on OSX!
>
>> And I use suckless tools because their simplicity makes them easy to
>> port everywhere.
>
> Don't make yourself at home on OSX!
>
>> I will never be at home the way one can be in a system built one's
>> self, but my preferred working environment is not so complex that I
>> can't replicate it almost anywhere I need it. So regardless of
>> Steven's goals, I appreciate his efforts that will, in the end, make
>> the time I spend wading in the GUI sewage of OS X so much less
>> painful.
>
> Don't make yourself at home on OSX!

Obviously we're all entitled to our own opinions. But this discussion
has gotten very far off-track. My original question was answered
satisfactorily already, so this thread is largely "OS X sucks and only
fools use it" over and over, which is a waste of everyone's time.
Received on Mon Aug 18 2014 - 01:22:55 CEST