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: Andrew Carter <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:03:37 -0800
Right on -- that's really the only confusing aspect. I'd like to see
Apple bring back the notion of "Developer Tools" to cover the whole
thing and use "Xcode" for the Xcode IDE application.
Andrew
On Dec 22, 2003, at 5:32 PM, Dave Rehring wrote:
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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