Re: What is the price of Xcode ?
Re: What is the price of Xcode ?
- Subject: Re: What is the price of Xcode ?
- From: Laurence Harris <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:12:07 -0500
On Feb 16, 2007, at 12:39 PM, Rob Barris wrote:
My understanding is that is free; Apple gives it away for the
asking (just that you might have to set up an online ADC account
first to gain access to it).
For example, if I have a five year old Mac, built before Xcode was
authored, I can download Xcode for free and put those bits on
there, without any money changing hands.
True or false?
As others have basically said, Xcode is an optional install available
to all Mac OS X users, and any given version of Xcode is tied to the
version of Mac OS X for which it was released. If you need to build
interface elements like windows or menus, you'll need to use
Interface Builder and that's tied to specific versions of the OS as
well. In both cases you really want to use the most recent versions
you can.
You didn't give any information regarding the kind of development you
want to do, but...
- What I haven't seen mentioned is that if at all possible, you want
to be using Xcode with the fastest, most powerful Mac you can afford.
Xcode is pretty much designed to make use of lots of RAM and multiple
processors/cores.
- Every Mac Apple's sold recently is based on an Intel processor. If
you plan to write anything for public consumption you're going to
need an Intel-based Mac. You can use Tiger and the latest Xcode to
build applications for Intel using a PowerPC, but you'd be crazy to
release anything for Intel without having used an Intel Mac for
testing and debugging purposes.
My point here is that while you can learn Xcode and get started on a
Mac that's five years old, you should plan on getting something newer
as soon as you can swing it.
Just my $0.02.
Larry
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