You talked about installing xcode. For newer osx versions, people may be able to install just the [command line tools for xcode][1], which is only about 170MB or so. It might save some people from waiting around for the full xcode.
Yes, I have to update to point people there. Apparently also the latest xcode is missing a bunch of stuff people might need and requires separate downloads of those pieces. I forget what but it's still annoying.
You talked about installing xcode. For newer osx versions, people may be able to install just the [command line tools for xcode][1], which is only about 170MB or so. It might save some people from waiting around for the full xcode.
[1]: http://kennethreitz.com/xcode-gcc-and-homebrew.html