On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 5:22 AM, James Cameron<quozl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 andverified that the download is far less than 1 MB.I believe the latest XCode is over a gig, but my experience wasn'tquite so bad; it was an older ibook, discs long gone, but using anoutdated version that was only 300 some MB, still too much, andsignificant given the speed of the comp. Maybe here's a task for some beneficent soul like me, to compile someGCC tools on OSX and offer small downloads. -Chuckk -- http://www.badmuthahubbard.com_______________________________________________Linux-audio-user mailing listLinux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
