Re: What are your top desired improvements in Xcode ?
Re: What are your top desired improvements in Xcode ?
- Subject: Re: What are your top desired improvements in Xcode ?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:06:31 +1100
Why can't Xcode make it easy and warn us about commonly known errors, like trying to make a library with PIC code on? And give us a helpful hint to turn it off? Or that sort of thing.
How about not screwing with build settings that you may not yet understand (not hard to find documentation on them with a quick search if the in Xcode tool tip isn't clear enough). =P
The example given was overly simple - but many cases are not. And I think the whole point is that you shouldn't have to go searching for documentation; if it's not going to work Xcode should be able to tell you up front, rather than relying on the raw gcc or ld output which is typically far from clear. Or worse, cases where the compile succeeds but will result in errors at runtime or later linktime.
Still, it'd be a tedious task to go through and figure out the dependencies and whatnot. It's a nice idea, but might be overly difficult to implement - especially for the complex cases which are of course the ones you'd most want this for. Still, http://bugreport.apple.com/ if you like the idea.
Wade Tregaskis
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