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One can only hope the developers inside Apple still enjoy using the terminal and "unix subsystem" in their work, enough to keep these things going into the futu
by 0x0 14y ago
One can only hope the developers inside Apple still enjoy using the terminal and "unix subsystem" in their work, enough to keep these things going into the future. I mean, xcode still needs to shell out to run gcc/llvm/clang, right?
- ef4 14y agoI'm not sure that it does. In fact the Mountain Lion upgrade deleted the command line toolchain from my machine. I had to go into Xcode and manually tell it to re-download the "Command Line Tools" optional extension.
- 0x0 14y agoThat's just the stuff that goes in /usr/bin, right? Aren't the files always present in /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin etc.?
- shadowfiend 14y agoCorrect. And you can always run it using xcrun (e.g. xcrun clang).
- gaius 14y agoThey have since day 1 - check out MPW, Macintosh Programmers Workshop. And I mean, since MacOS pre-1.0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Programmer%27s_Workshop#MPW_Shell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Programmer%27s_Worksh...