resizing window when using "bc" in interactive mode

Richard L. Hamilton rlhamil at smart.net
Sun Aug 11 07:26:53 UTC 2024


Interesting.

On Monterey it's still GNU 1.06. On Ventura, it's
bc 4.0.2
Copyright (c) 2018-2021 Gavin D. Howard and contributors
Report bugs at: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc <https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc>

supposedly with more features than the GNU version.


> On Aug 11, 2024, at 03:08, Ryan Carsten Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> On Aug 11, 2024, at 00:03, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
>> 
>> The MacPorts version uses MacPorts supplied libraries (other than libSystem). The macOS version uses macOS supplied libraries. (ultimately from the same open source projects, but potentially different versions and build options, so not identical code)
> 
> It's *not* the same software. MacPorts has GNU bc 1.07 which is licensed GPL-3. macOS used to have GNU bc 1.06 released back in 2000 under GPL-2. Apple has switched to someone else's bc implementation in recent macOS probably because as we know Apple is allergic to GPL-3. 
> 

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