Opened 11 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
#40982 closed enhancement (duplicate)
Is XCode really needed? Isn't XCode Command Line Tools sufficient?
| Reported by: | PerMildner | Owned by: | jmpp@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | website | Version: | 2.2.1 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt) | |
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Description
The install documentation, http://www.macports.org/install.php, item 1 says that XCode is needed. Item 2 says that the XCode Command Line tools are needed.
Is it really true that XCode itself is needed if the Command Line Tools are installed?
XCode itself is a huge install and, on OS X 10.9 Mavericks, the command line tools are easy to install (e.g. xcode-select --install or via cc --version) without even registering at developer.apple.com. For this reason it would be a good thing to remove XCode from the prerequisites if it is not really needed.
(Related: On OS X 10.9 Mavericks, the easiest way to install the command line tools is xcode-select --install, not by downloading them from developer.apple.com as the install guide suggests.)
Change History (1)
comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
| Cc: | ryandesign@… added |
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| Resolution: | → duplicate |
| Status: | new → closed |
Yes, Xcode is needed. The request for Xcode to be optional is #29172.