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: Laurence Harris <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:44:13 -0500
On Feb 16, 2007, at 9:53 PM, Shawn Erickson wrote:
On 2/16/07, Theodore H. Smith <email@hidden> wrote:
On 17 Feb 2007, at 01:10, Laurence Harris wrote:
>
> On Feb 16, 2007, at 8:05 PM, Oscar Stiffelman wrote:
>
>> I would like more xcodeindex documentation, transparency, and
>> configurability. And more ways to adjust the build system.
>
> Have you filed a request for this in Radar?
>
>> Xcode is currently unusable for our codebase because our
development
>> model is slightly different from what it expects. I won't go into
>> details here (look for other threads by me for details). But
>> everything would work if it were just a little bit more
configurable.
>>
>> I love the simplicity of xcode, but it's a little bit too
>> constraining.
>
> Simplicity? I find it far less simple that CodeWarrior, and
> generally more configurable.
I find Xcode too complicated in it's configuration. It's too much
Unixy what with all it's gcc underpinnings. I don't want to care
about that sort of stuff.
Xcode hides all of the rather well... try building with make or gcc
some time directly to see how well it does.
Better than awful is not necessarily good. ;-)
Also the template projects
and targets make it very easy to not have to care about these things.
I agree with Theodore. Xcode may hide lots of things, but it still
feels pretty darn geeky compared to CodeWarrior, or any other
application I've used. For example, it's the only application I've
ever used that has a huge list of preferences. Unfortunately, the
leader in user friendly computers and software (Apple) deviates
significantly from that philosophy when designing its developer
tools. Yes, we're all happy Xcode is multithreaded and can build
Intel binaries, and a lot of people like the power it gives them to
configure this and that, but a lot of people also miss the easy of
use and intuitiveness of CodeWarrior.
I know the Xcode team is working hard and that every release of Xcode
represents an improvement over past releases, but it's still geeky
and more confusing than it has to be IMO.
Larry
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