[LAD] [LAU] Kim did the switch to Linux

[victor]

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" <badmuthahubbard at gmail.com>
To: "James Cameron" <quozl at us.netrek.org>
Cc: <linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org>; 
<linux-audio-dev at lists.linuxaudio.org>
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<quozl at us.netrek.org> 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 outdated version that was only 300 some MB, still too much, and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
>
>
>
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