I recently found out that Apple is shipping rsync 2.6.9. That's from 2006. It's missing a bunch of features, and I'm guessing a bunch of protocol improvements and security fixes...
It's because newer versions of rsync switched license to GPL3 (from GPL2), and apparently Apple is not touching that with a ten foot pole. It's also why the included bash is frozen in time (and probably why they switched to zsh as the default interactive shell)
Serious question, where is the effort going on each of these annual OS releases? I truly don't know, probably out of ignorance. Comparability with new HW? Supporting new file formats? As far as I can tell the headline feature of the latest MacOS is a screensaver with very large file sizes. Perhaps Apple and its many developers efforts would be better employed updating these essential tools and QA of the same.
I recently found out that Apple is shipping rsync 2.6.9. That's from 2006. It's missing a bunch of features, and I'm guessing a bunch of protocol improvements and security fixes...
It's because newer versions of rsync switched license to GPL3 (from GPL2), and apparently Apple is not touching that with a ten foot pole. It's also why the included bash is frozen in time (and probably why they switched to zsh as the default interactive shell)
Serious question, where is the effort going on each of these annual OS releases? I truly don't know, probably out of ignorance. Comparability with new HW? Supporting new file formats? As far as I can tell the headline feature of the latest MacOS is a screensaver with very large file sizes. Perhaps Apple and its many developers efforts would be better employed updating these essential tools and QA of the same.
There’s tons of things that are new in every OS version
The consumer facing site shows consumer facing features. Hence why you’d see things like screensavers and video effects highlighted.
The developer side features are documented on videos released at WWDC each year. https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=cj1fjit2
Or summarized in the Platform State of the Union https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=gxtoci7w
That is helpful- Thank you! There is a lot there indeed.
Good enough for UNIX certification, though.