Xcodes

Xcode version manager CLI.

Managed by: nix/home/darwin/packages/xcodes.nix (Home Manager package from the GitHub release binary, version 1.6.2)

Why Not Homebrew?

The Homebrew formula for xcodes builds from source using xcbuild, which requires Xcode to already be installed — a chicken-and-egg problem. This package uses the prebuilt binary from GitHub releases instead.

The package fetches the aarch64 macOS release archive from GitHub and installs its xcodes executable.

Xcode Selection

The activation script in nix/darwin/default.nix runs xcode-select -s for the latest installed Xcode*.app when one is present.