On Mar 12, 2011, at 00:56, Keith J. Schultz wrote: > The way I see it Apple is opening up another market! > If you look at the Mac App store you will see that Xcode 4 > is the TOP selling App! > > Which means that their are a lot of developers that are not > registered developers.
At least, it means there are a lot of people who use Xcode or developers tools, who are not registered developers. Most MacPorts users for example are not developers, but they need Xcode. > Over here in Germany Xcode 4 only cost as much as a pack of > cigarettes! I think the primary objection, from the people objecting, is not the price, but that there is one. They're upset that they're being made to pay a nonzero amount of money in order to use (compile, build) free (open-source) software on their Mac. > I do see the problem with ports that many things must be done inside > of ports, as of Xcode 4. But, how many ports already depend on newer > gccs! Most of the ports that depend on a MacPorts gcc compiler do so not because they need a newer C or C++ compiler, but because they need a Fortran compiler, which Apple does not provide in Xcode. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
