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Re: Zerolink as a default option
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Re: Zerolink as a default option


  • Subject: Re: Zerolink as a default option
  • From: Rustam Muginov <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 12:19:30 +0400

IMHO, Xcode engineers put the ZeroLink on for Development style on purpose.
Too many developers (I think mostly shareware and freeware developers, not
the pro apps developers) were distributing "development" style builds.


On 9/16/04 6:38 PM, "Steve Bryan" <email@hidden> wrote:

> I'm certain that I have arrived late to this particular conversation
> but I'd like to know if this insidiously dangerous "feature" is still
> a default option. Putting in a feature that produces code that only
> works correctly on the developers' machine as a default option seems
> incredibly wreckless. Whether it is a good idea at all is another
> discussion but making it default just seems like a bad joke.
>
> This enables the nightmare situation of a developer saying "it works
> right on my machine" and being actually the case. This does not seem
> to depend on user login as I have several and they all are happy to
> run code that has zerolink enabled. Besides venting I wanted to post
> on this topic to reinforce the warning to developers who might be
> insufficiently cautious. I haven't updated to version 1.5 of XCode
> because of reports of problems specifically with debugging so I don't
> know if this has already been rectified.
>
> -Steve Bryan
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