Maverics/Xcode 5 proposal: no more xcode-select --install

[Paul Bennett]

On 30 Oct 2013, at 23:04, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
> In article <52711F90.70809 at macports.org>,
> Rainer Muller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:
>> Well, after thinking about this again, we could also do it the other way
>> around. The majority of ports already builds just fine if you have the
>> Command Line Tools only, without Xcode (ignore warnings from base about
>> missing xcodebuild, it's not actually required in this case).
[...]
> From the outside looking in, that strikes me as a much more realistic and 
> potentially achievable goal.

I'd still like to encourage considering both cases:
1. When Xcode is installed, but Command Line Tools aren't
2. When Command Line Tools are installed, but Xcode isn't

From my position, I don't see that the scale of 2 is significantly different to 1, particularly since in both cases the shims - including xcrun - will be there to assist locating the relevant tools, headers and libraries.


pab