Speaking of Homebrew – is there a way to get it installed on Mac OS without an Apple ID?
I got this fancy shiny Macbook (with a broken keyboard, but who cares…) from IT and it might actually make sense to use it sometimes, but I don’t really want to go through the hassle of registering with Apple just to get a recent-ish Bash, git etc. The instructions on the website seem to require Xcode to be installed, which seems to only be available via iTunes.
Yes you'll need an Apple ID to get XCode and other Apple updates. Very annoying but for quite a few software programs, there's not much choice than to go through the dreadful App Store application.
Yeah, but running it in a Virtualbox is not quite the same and I don’t think IT would let me install it directly on the HDD (even though all the workstations run Ubuntu).
I have never understood why --with-pcre is not the default in Homebrew, --without-pcre should be the option.