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: John Mikros <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:26:14 -0800
On Feb 17, 2007, at 3:18 AM, Dietmar Planitzer wrote:
The actually relevant question here is: why is there even a PIC
setting in the dynamic library template ?
To me it doesn't make sense that the UI gives you a way to produce
a dynamic library with a format that is not actually supported by
the dynamic linker. It also doesn't make sense to me that the
relevant setting is worded in a way so that we have a double
negation by default. Didn't we learn many decades ago that a good
UI design should avoid double negations as a user can easily
misinterpret them ?
Honestly, out of curiosity, I've just created a dynamic library
project and reading the default PIC setting, I can absolutely
understand when someone gets confused about the meaning of this
setting.
This setting should be removed from the UI. Period. It's Xcode's
duty to pass the correct PIC setting to the linker, without me even
having to think about that stuff.
What happens when you are building a static library? There's no way
for Xcode to know whether that static library will end up in an
executable or a dynamic library. Thus, you need that build setting.
-john
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