I, for one, develop on OSX, but would not touch XCode with a barge pole. I'm much happier with emacs and the terminal, as in Linux (and Windows, for that matter).
I see about the size of download, although it never bothered me because at work that is not a problem. But it would be if I were at home. Victor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuckk Hubbard" <[email protected]> To: "James Cameron" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 08, 2009 8:31 AM Subject: Re: [LAD] [LAU] Kim did the switch to Linux > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 5:22 AM, James Cameron<[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 07:44:46PM -0600, Thomas Vecchione wrote: >>> You misunderstood what he was saying. The GCC compiler IS included on >>> the installation disks as part of the XCode program. You can also >>> download this program off of the internet(The download is over a gig >>> by the way last I looked). The complaint is that Apple only bundles >>> gcc with the XCode program and a lot of useless stuff that aren't >>> necessarily used by people like us. But they are used by most Mac >>> developers, and Apple I am sure wants to encourage their use and >>> 'their' way of doing things. >> >> Ah, I see, thanks. Yes, an encouragement. I get the point. An open >> ecosystem doesn't need to offer the same encouragement. > > Yeah, that was my point. I checked my Debian testing gcc first and > verified that the download is far less than 1 MB. > I believe the latest XCode is over a gig, but my experience wasn't > quite so bad; it was an older ibook, discs long gone, but using an > outdated version that was only 300 some MB, still too much, and > significant given the speed of the comp. > > Maybe here's a task for some beneficent soul like me, to compile some > GCC tools on OSX and offer small downloads. > > -Chuckk > > > > -- > http://www.badmuthahubbard.com > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
