Re: Where is Xcode?
Re: Where is Xcode?
- Subject: Re: Where is Xcode?
- From: Chaz McGarvey <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 21:38:31 -0600
On Oct 25, 2003, at 8:41 PM, Chris Hanson wrote:
On Oct 25, 2003, at 6:57 PM, Stiphane Sudre wrote:
His software is now incompatible with previous OS versions. A big
step for backward compatibility. And an interesting question is: is
the code faster or slower than before?
That is an interesting question. I suspect the performance is
comparable.
And as for incompatibility, if it costs 50% as much to write
Panther-only software compared to Jaguar- and Panther-compatible
software, for some markets the economics could favor writing
Panther-only even if Panther isn't widely adopted at first.
I'm wondering whether I should say or not that developing with
Panther is currently a nightmare for me compared to Jaguar.
You should say that, and you should be specific about why and in what
way it's a nightmare.
Well if someone else is going to say it, I might as well, too. Xcode
just us a little more... complex than PB. Being familiar with PB, I
learned how to use Visual Studio 6 faster than I'm "relearning" Mac OS
X development with Xcode. Everything just seems to be hidden. Target
options are in a weird place (the inspector window is kind of
annoying), it took me forever to figure out how to display the command
line calls and output (I had to do that because Xcode reported a failed
build because of 1 Error, but the error didn't show up where you think
it would: in Errors and Warnings). I'm still figuring out how to get
"other linker flags" to appear in the command call before other flags
(i need to link to libz before a custom library, but how?) ...
Before this turns into a big fat rant, I'll stop myself. I'm sure I'll
get more efficient at using Xcode; I just hope any speed improvements
Xcode provides aren't wasted on its interface, which I'm not really a
fan of right now. Give me time.
- Chaz
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