But no, their internal build system's problem never override anything in OS releases,
at least not before Steve Jobs came back.
It is true that there is lots of consideration whether changes should be made.
But Apple at least should put a note on their web site stating the problem. That would save people
lots of trouble. I did search their web site and found nothing.
ted
On Mar 15, 2005, at 7:46 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote:
On Mar 15, 2005, at 10:01 PM, Chris Devers wrote:
Apparently, for whatever reason, it was never considered necessary to patch it in a following OS upgrade, or even in the XCode update that came out a few months ago. I don't know why, but there it is.
Can you imagine the QA nightmare that would be? A change in Perl - even a small change - would mean that everything Perl touches would have to be re-tested and passed by QA. I'm told that Apple uses Perl in their internal build system - so that essentially would mean *everything*, full stop. They'd be fools to go to that sort of effort for anything less than a major OS revision.
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