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Re: How are package[sic] chosen for an OS X release?

On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 12:54, Luc Heinrich wrote:

Greetings,

Simple question: how are the "packages" composing the BSD layer chosen ? I'm talking about all those command line thingies, scripting environments and stuff like that. I am particularly interested in knowing the time between the decision that package X makes it to the final release and the time it is effectively added.

Why am I asking this ? Well, Ruby 1.8 is supposed to be shipped in a few weeks and I would *love* to see the aging 1.6.7 of Jaguar be replaced by the 1.8 in Panther... :)

The decision about what to include and when to upgrade it is driven first and foremost by customer demand (e.g. bugreporter.apple.com) so be sure and make your needs known, particularly when it comes to any Mac-specific requirements you may have. The balance is chosen by the various wish lists and preferences of the Unix devotees here at Apple and, of course, all are gated by the release schedules of various open source projects. To cite Ruby as an example, whether it gets updated or not depends most critically on whether or not the ruby team does 1.8 in time to make the cut-off. Sometimes this happens, other times not.

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Jordan K. Hubbard
Engineering Manager, BSD technology group
Apple Computer
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