Mac OS X and pkg-config

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Wed Jun 10 06:29:55 PDT 2015


On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 02:56:59PM +0200, Michael Stahl wrote:
> On 10.06.2015 13:30, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> > So why Mac OS X is treated differently, what is so special about it?
> 
> Mac OS X is an actual operating system with an actual SDK that defines
> the stable and supported interfaces of the platform.  GNU/Linux on the
> other hand is a random collection of packages with mostly undocumented
> stability and support properties.  i don't believe that making
> developer's lives harder in the long term by allowing them to treat Mac
> OS X as a random collection of packages is worth any short term benefit.

OK.


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