On 7/27/11, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Installing the Haskell Platform currently requires XCode developer tools.
To get XCode on my 10.6 machine, I...
My understanding is that it's about $5 (though I seem to recall hearing that they recently made it free), but I don't use OSX so I can't really help you.
The choices Apple's given me are OS X 10.7 ($30), or Developer Account ($99/1 year). I don't see XCode available for sale without one of these two.
Is there a way to install HP without XCode? Could there be in the future? [...] it seems like a small function that XCode actually performs in the Haskell development "toolchain."
A C compiler (specifically gcc; not sure if anyone has tried GHC with clang yet). Whilst GHC doesn't need to go via C any more, the Haskell Platform does come with some libraries that have a C component; GHC is also partly written in C (for the RTS if memory serves) though that shouldn't be a factor here as you're getting a binary.
If this is the case, couldn't the HP use gcc instead? I'd personally advocate gcc as standard, not as a workaround, because a) gcc is FOSS. b) XCode is 4GB and its functionality is basically orthogonal to the needs of Haskell developers. Thanks for your time, Tom