Re: is Xcode 1.1 update the same as Xcode 1.1 install?
Re: is Xcode 1.1 update the same as Xcode 1.1 install?
- Subject: Re: is Xcode 1.1 update the same as Xcode 1.1 install?
- From: Dave Rehring <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 17:32:45 -0800
On 12/22/03 3:56 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi at email@hidden wrote:
> Thank you for your comments.
>
> The model that we've taken with the tools since Mac OS X shipped has
> been that partial installs, updating just specific components, have
> always said "Update" in the title where full releases which included
> updated components always carried the term "Tools" in the title.
> Perhaps this was too subtle, but it has not been misunderstood before.
>
> Question: There were two new downloads with similar names right next to
> each other on the ADC website, do you consider it unreasonable that a
> developer would download and read the Read Me files, about 10-20K
> apiece, for both of them? My own predilection would be to read *all*
> the read me files when I see several downloads and then choose which
> ones I wanted to obtain. Other people behave differently, I see, so I
> am trying to gauge in what ways to change the way I organize the naming
> and read me information.
>
> best,
> Godfrey
This is what we're talking about:
Xcode Update v1.1
vs
Xcode Tools v1.1
Seeing this, I would NOT expect to have to download the two ReadMe PDF's for
each of these, open both of them and do a 'diff' operation in my head to
determine which one to install.
I would expect that if I didn't have a previous version of Xcode installed,
I should download the tools 'installer', and if I had already installed a
previous version of Xcode, I could just download the updater to get ALL of
Xcode updated to v1.1.
If it were named:
Xcode.app Update v1.1
I would be more likely to do a double-take.
The problem as I see it is that there are two things with the name 'Xcode',
and from the information on the ADC download page, there isn't enough
contextual information for a user to determine which 'Xcode' the title for
each file is referring to.
Later,
--
David Rehring Psychos do not explode when light hits
VP of Research and Development them, no matter how crazy they are...
Atimi Software, Inc.
www.atimi.com And totally insane guy!
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