Re: Xcode release notes
Re: Xcode release notes
- Subject: Re: Xcode release notes
- From: Rob Dye <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 14:29:35 -0500
This little exchange between a relative newcomer (?) to Xcode and the
head of developer tools at Apple (I'm not sure about that title,
Godfrey) strikes me as indicative of a systemic problem with Xcode: the
developers of Xcode do not appear to have a good understanding of the
users of Xcode.
I often find myself searching through Xcode muttering "where is that
damn checkbox/option/preference? Do I twiddle the build phase? (nope,
nothing there.) Is it in the properties of a target? Is it in the
properties of the group? Check all the menus... Christ! What do I have
to do to get what I want?"
Also, on a fairly regular basis, Xcode users post to this list with
questions that have apparently obvious answers to an Xcode expert. You
could say that is just the natural consequence of the Xcode learning
curve. However, these questions and my experience with Xcode (and years
of usage of other IDEs including VC, Project Builder, CodeWarrior,
Think C, Lightspeed C and Megamax C) lead me to believe that that is an
easy answer that masks a deeper problem: there appears to be mental
model that the Xcode developers have about Xcode that is not shared by
a large number of users.
I don't want to start any kind of flame war. Xcode is very powerful in
many ways. I just think the Xcode developers should take these kinds of
questions/irritations/complaints as something more than just stupid
users who haven't a clue. Stupid users are usually just the innocent
victims of a stupid user interface.
Rob Dye
LabVIEW R&D
National Instruments
On Aug 4, 2004, at 1:05 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Hmm. I opened the Documentation Window from the Help menu, set the
search to "full text", entered "release note" and got a huge list...
http://homepage.mac.com/godders/RELEASENOTES.jpg
Godfrey
On Aug 3, 2004, at 6:48 PM, David Dunham wrote:
What's New says
"For more information on new features, see the release notes for the
individual components in the ADC Reference Library, accessible from
the Xcode documentation window"
I don't see any such release notes in that window...
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David Dunham A Sharp email@hidden
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