Dependency on developer tools

[Lee Azzarello]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>wrote:

>
> On Oct 23, 2009, at 14:32, Michael Crawford wrote:
>
>  Apple's versions of the GNU toolchain are open source, and available
>> from http://opensource.apple.com/
>>
>> Suppose one were to build just enough of a toolchain to be able to
>> build a MacPort, and provided just that as a binary download, that
>> would get installed if Xcode wasn't installed.
>>
>
> I don't see the benefit. We have always required Xcode be installed. Let's
> continue to do so, and alert the user about this requirement in the
> installer if necessary.
>
> That would definitely help new users. I do think it would be pretty cool to
not require any Xcode stuff as a feature. Personally, I don't care about
making OS X applications, I just want to be able to install the same stuff I
use on Linux on OS X.

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Lee Azzarello
drop.io staff hacker
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