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@jchw

I must admit that I agree your fear is definitely founded in my opinion. Regarding that specific issue though, I can simply only imagine it’s too early to say (and honestly, I sort of hope this thread doesn’t derail into a long recap of the pros and cons of Darwin support.) If it’s important enough, Darwin support will surely help decide which fork is most successful, I can only imagine.

I mentioned it to contextualize my worries, but I agree. That conversation should happen elsewhere.

@anon67371346

I’d think it’d be the other way around. If a SIG of significant size can form for Darwin support, then there will be Darwin support. Lets be honest, any fork will start out with significantly fewer resources than nixpkgs, even if everyone who said they’d contribute will actually stick around for longer. A lot of work will be spread very thin for a long time, and Darwin would be a LOT of work added that is not easy to distribute due to its proprietary nature. I cannot just spin up a VM and test changes locally or run a CI builder for it.

Platform concerns (whether Darwin or Musl or FreeBSD or Windows) tend to be cross-cutting. A platform SIG needs to be able to set standards the other groups can be reasonably expected to follow, or the others at least need to defer to them when it comes to platform needs or accepting fixes for platform support.