installing couchapp on mac requires Command_Line_Tools_for_Xcode_xx.x

[DiegoJArg]

I have downloaded it for MAC, I just struggled with the installation of a dependency called watchdog, which required to have installed XCode (like 8 Gb of unnecessary stuff), or the barely mentioned CommandLineTools (248 Gb)

CommandLineTools

So, the issue is that to install CouchApp I need to install 250 Mb of CommandLineTools, making the whole thing a lot more than CouchDB itself.
It would help if the tooling gets contained with the same libs as CouchDB supplies, which is the same reasoning to why jquery is being included as states in the docs.

I dont know if the erica project contains the same features, but it isn't easy to download and compile in MAC, as it required to be compiled, not something that a web developer usually does.

well, thanks in advance

[iblislin]

hmm, I'm not sure about the compiler/toolchain available on MacOS.
Could you provide more detail about the environment? like virtualenv you have, MacOS builtin compiler, Python version ... etc.

[DiegoJArg]

When I first runned easy_install couchapp, it stopped at watchdog with an error about "xcrun".
Then searched the internet and found the Command Line Tools as an alternative to Xcode.
Which is a really heavy work programming environment which normal users dont need.

Actually, if we check at the dependencies of watchdog, it is there requiring Xcode: https://pypi.org/project/watchdog/
I don't know why they require it, it seems to me that python should not require compilers.

Anyway, if couchapp required watchdog, it would also be a requirement for CommandLineTools on MacOS

[iblislin]

Could you try the virtualenv and pip? since easy_install is a deprecated tool