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Open Source distributions for macOS 13.5

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What’s with all these empty comments?

I understand that git submodules is not so well known, but doesn’t your curiosity kick in when you see Apple releasing a bunch of empty folders? Don’t you want to spend 1 minute to understand why?

Do you feel like spending that minute to write “just a bunch of empty folders” is such a good thing to do?

Yes, this is pretty interesting: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-macO... … with links to 174 submodules.

But for the uninitiated, this might appear as nothing.

In my opinion, a better submission title would be: Open Source distributions for macOS 13.5 have been released.

The current title is a bit misleading, because several parts of macOS, including those covered partially by the OSS releases, are proprietary.

Ok, we'll use that instead. Thanks!

(Submitted title was "macOS 13.5 source code released")

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The actual repo has all the files. Hidden among the many directories is release.json that includes the tags that should be pulled into various directories I guess?

Look at all that open source software they use :)

it's a bunch of empty directories

They're submodules. The actual code is there:

https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-macO...

almost as if you need to do something with that submodules file...

I guess they forgot the .DS_Store files.

Will never understand why doesn't Nintendo sue them for this.

Probably because the .DS_Store file predates the Nintendo DS by several years.

I think it may be a joke.

Apparently it stands for "Desktop Services Store". https://www.arno.org/on-the-origins-of-ds-store

Is it legit?

The XNU kernel has been open source for a very long time.