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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: GtkAda on macOS Big Sur
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On 2021-08-23 18:59, Simon Wright wrote:
> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> 
>> And finally, I understand, there exist posh people, but why anybody
>> would ever use MacOS!? with a telling nickname surreal or
>> slur... (:-))
> 
> Dr Posh here.
> 
> I find my Mac extremely comfortable and pleasant to use. I will admit to
> it being a little ... different ... in a very few, minor, unimportant
> software aspects.

Well, not so unimportant. It is BSD and that is a really bad omen. I had 
immense networking problems with FreeNAS daily crashes, abysmal 
performance. FreeNAS is also BSD. Then Ubuntu rolled out ZFS support. I 
migrated my NAS to Ubuntu and since then had no problems whatsoever. 
Network access is many times faster and the system runs months without 
reboot.

> re: which, I thought it might be interesting to try building GTK. Good
> grief ...
> 
> https://forward-in-code.blogspot.com/2021/08/not-building-gtk-on-big-sur.html

Last time I looked GTK required bootstrapping. It was a very complicated 
process because GTK had recursive dependencies in the packages. I 
remember pkg-config was ultimately dependent on itself, or something 
like that. Though having there a somehow working installation should 
massively ease the process.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de