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Re: Xcode Command Line Tools
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Re: Xcode Command Line Tools


  • Subject: Re: Xcode Command Line Tools
  • From: Peter Teeson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:25:55 -0400

While I can empathize with those who use the GNU tools and mourn their loss from the Xcode distro it seems to me to be quite fair for Apple to no longer include them. I don't know if this was mentioned in the release note - I didn't catch it if it was. And if it wasn't it would have been good manners to mention it.

Nevertheless to be fair, Xcode is fundamentally mean't to help developers build SW for Apple products and so Apple's implied obligation, IMHO, is to provide that capability. Beyond that anything else they do is just through their beneficence.

Removal does impose an extra burden on those who require them. But those who do are surely more than able to acquire them.
After all the spirit of individualism and self sufficiency is still very much alive in our neighbours to the South.
And also for this loner up here in the frozen North. ;-}  Of course you may disagree.

respect….

Peter

On 2012-03-27, at 4:53 PM, Rick Mann wrote:
> On Mar 27, 2012, at 13:48 , Joar Wingfors wrote:
>
>> It depends on what you mean with the "GNU tool chain". That said, it's correct that autoconf/automake was dropped from the Xcode distribution starting with Xcode 4.3.
>
> I'd argue that this is a bad move. Why did Apple do this? It's a real PITA to have to install a bunch of GNU tools to let open source projects build.
>
> --
> Rick
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