Re:Xcode now costs US$ 4.99
by dedward on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @04:58PM
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Xcode every other day before now: Free with your OS
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And? Apple never said (as far as I know) that "Xcode will be forever free" and really, are people bitching about $5?
> are people bitching about $5?
Yes. Because Xcode has been free for 10 years it's taken for granted that Xcode is free, and because OSX's base install does contain any C compilers, it's in the Xcode install.
> OSX's base install does contain any C compilers, it's in the Xcode install.
I think you ment to say "Doesn't" instead of does. This nullifies any argument that GCC and the Gnu Toolchain are free to download, if in a year from now the OS you buy doesn't contain GCC in the base install in order to download and compile GCC.
I don't know a ton about gcc internals, but I imagine it probably wouldn't be overly difficult to create an installer that puts a precompiled gcc into /usr/bin.