Dependency on developer tools

[Scott Haneda]

On Oct 23, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Lee Azzarello wrote:

> 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.


And unless I am totally off my mark, you need Developer Tools to do  
so.  Sure, you do not need all the "junk" they pass along with it, but  
you do at least, need a compiler, which you are not getting without  
dev tools installed.  Am I mistaken on this interpretation?
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