Re: What is stored in .pbxuser file?
Re: What is stored in .pbxuser file?
- Subject: Re: What is stored in .pbxuser file?
- From: Scott Tooker <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 20:03:39 -0800
I belive this is true. The only settings that come close are the
locations for built products and intermediates files.
Scott
On Jan 9, 2004, at 11:23 AM, Kevin Hoyt wrote:
> Ok, thanks for the information...
> However, now I'm wondering how I'm supposed to know "When something
> important changes in it"?
> At this point, all I can do is do a diff and hope that I recognize
> "something important."
>
> Would it be safe to say that the user preference file does not, and
> will
> never have, anything kept in it that affects the way the project is
> compiled? I don't care about stuff like build output or window
> locations,
> just options that could affect the compiled code...
>
> Message: 13
> Cc: email@hidden
> From: David Ewing <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: What is stored in .pbxuser file?
> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 10:47:07 -0700
> To: Ken Turkowski <email@hidden>
>
> On Jan 8, 2004, at 11:06 PM, Ken Turkowski wrote:
>
>> On Jan 8, 2004, at 6:29 PM, Scott Tooker <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Per-user per-project settings are there (like a custom build products
>>> folder, custom executables, breakpoints, and bookmarks to name a
>>> few).
>>> We also store a bunch of window geometry info. We usually check them
>>> in
>>> periodically to archive them in CVS.
>>
>> We've got a project that builds a compiler that generates C code from
>> a custom grammar. This C code is then linked in with human-generated C
>> code to produce an executable. The only way we've been able to get
>> xcode to compile and debug it is to create a custom executable.
>>
>> Obviously, this causes problems for new guys on the project, because
>> they then have to add a custom executable, which then gets stored in
>> the .pbxuser file instead of a file that can be checked in and used by
>> everybody.
>>
>> It there a way that we can teach xcode about an executable that is
>> constructed by a nonstandard means?
>
> This is what the default.pbxuser file is for. Just copy another user's
> .pbxuser file, and check it into the repository. New users will then
> start out with those settings. Unfortunately, once a user has his own
> .pbxuser file, changes to the default.pbxuser file don't get seen.
> (There are cases where this sort of functionality would be nice, but it
> doesn't sound too critical for your case.)
>
> Also note that even if everybody has their .pbxuser files checked in,
> only their own personal file is used when opening a project. Other
> files sitting on disk are ignored.
>
> You could only check in the default.pbxuser file and use it as the
> "master" one. When something important changes in it, you could have
> people manually delete their own .pbxuser files.
>
> Dave
>
>
> Kevin Hoyt
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