[masklinn]

> Apple switched when bash switched from GPL2 to GPL3

Apple just didn’t update. It took them years to finally switch to switch to zsh.

> The older bash is still available.

Aside from it being bash (a great reason not to use it as far as I’m concerned) it’s now a 17 years old version of bash.

[toast0]

> Aside from it being bash (a great reason not to use it as far as I’m concerned) it’s now a 17 years old version of bash.

I thought people liked macOs for its vintage feel? Remember a time when computers could only render a single menu bar in a fixed location, feel the experience of SYN floods, run a version of bash that is old enough to vote in the next presidential election.

[mkesper]

Honestly this is such a waste of time every time I have to argue with developers about installing up to date homebrew (or whatever) versions of the coreutils that I wish Apple would simply DELETE all these ancient versions of tools from MacOS. As a bonus, homebrew does not offer --with-default-names any more and some tools (like make) are posted into different paths so you need to add your own symlinks or add multiple paths to your PATH.