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Can you explain plausible reasoning for not installing CLT by default? I'm willing to listen, I just don't get it.

• msbarnett 15y ago
  Smaller download for people who don't need them? Rather than distributing two copies of the tools (one with Xcode, and the (awesome) new CLI only tool distribution), they DRY it up and have one canonical package for everyone, reducing testing, packaging overhead, possibility for divergence between the two packages, etc, etc?
  • feralchimp 15y ago
    Good answer. I was lazy and didn't notice the CLI-only distro. Thanks-
• calloc 15y ago
  man xcrun man xcode-select The tools are already available, just not in the normal path locations. Also if you are modifying the files installed by the CLT installer such that they get messed up you are doing it wrong.
• drivebyacct2 15y ago
  Because an enormous number of developers have no desire to use Xcode and are annoyed at having to download 1.3GB Xcode to get `gcc`.
• batista 15y ago
  Well, if XCode can serve its purpose (build and debug OS X apps) without the CLI, why should it have them included?