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Corpos being corpos (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] cjk@discuss.tchncs.de 128 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (18 children)

Apple deployed a library I wrote to every mac on the world, and additionally bundles it with Xcode.

Apple users reported some bugs, that‘s how I found out.

I never heard a word from them. No patches, no bug reports, nothing, they didn’t even bother to refresh the bundled version.

I think in the meantime they removed it from macOS but still bundle it with Xcode.

I mean, I didn’t any money, but some appreciation would’ve been nice, and a version refresh…

If you are curious: it is this library: https://github.com/ckruse/CFPropertyList

Edit: appreciation as in: a mail with a notice that they did so.

[–] mattd@programming.dev 47 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Really funny/interesting that they use an external library to handle a format that they created!

[–] cjk@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I was surprised, too. I guess they implemented stuff using Ruby and didn’t bother to write an in-house implementation. 🤷‍♂️

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