Re: Why not Open-Source Xcode?
Re: Why not Open-Source Xcode?
- Subject: Re: Why not Open-Source Xcode?
- From: Nicolas Zinovieff <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 00:23:23 +0100
Well, even if it is not possible - or not in the interest of the
software company, pick your choice - to release the code of the IDE as
an Open Source project, I was wondering if a SDK would be a
possibility.
After all, we (the developers) make tools for other people, and have
our own ideas, and sensibilities about the tools we use, and the IDE
plays a major role in our daily lives. Tweaking the tools we use, for
our own benefit or another developer's might be a tremendous step
forward.
The tools are free, so the business model will not be threatened by a
plugin architecture, the plugins already exist, so the overhead is not
too heavy, and there are less people that have the opportunity to add a
feature (let alone fixing the bugs), than people who have
ideas/needs/potentialities.
Plus, it might give us the opportunity to use closed or private SDKs
that don't work with XCode for example (no, you won't have examples,
these are /private/ SDKs ;) ).
Just my two cents there.
On 01 Dec, 2003, at 22:12, Alastair Houghton wrote:
There have been lots of comments along the lines of "Xcode doesn't do
this" or "Xcode doesn't do that", or "It'd be great if Xcode had this
feature that <such-and-such an IDE has>"... particularly given that
Xcode is used by software engineers (who *could*, in theory at least,
fix the bugs they care about and add the features they really want), it
would seem to make a great deal of sense to Open Source the code,
giving everyone the ability to contribute changes back to the product.
Apple have open-sourced a fair bit of Mac OS X... so why not do the
same with Xcode? It certainly seems to make sense from a purely
pragmatic point of view.
--
Nicolas
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