Re: Editor is really buggy
Re: Editor is really buggy
- Subject: Re: Editor is really buggy
- From: Ashley Aitken <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 11:00:55 +0800
Hi Nick,
Thanks for your post.
On 31/05/2004, at 10:46 AM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:
On May 30, 2004, at 2:49 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote:
I'd very much like too, but why do we still have the requirement that
the developer tools MUST be on the same partition as the OS?
Because the Xcode installation puts a number of files into /System and
/usr, and probably some other places. It's not just installing things
into the /Developer folder. Some of the files that are installed
expect their support files to be located at a specific path, so it's
just not possible to move stuff around.
I'm sorry I probably wasn't clear enough. I realise it needs to
install stuff within /System and elsewhere on the boot partition.
However, this doesn't explain why it is unhappy with /Developer being a
symbolic link onto another partition? As I mentioned, I have moved
/Developer off the boot partition.
I actually chose the boot partition for the install (it allowed me to
do that even though /Developer was not on that partition). The install
completed without error but Xcode is still 1.1. I guess it just can't
find the app across a symbolic link (must be trying hard to do that ;-)
and so doesn't update the app itself.
Here's me thinking that 10GB would be a very fair size partition for
an OS and developer tools, but now I'm struggling.
That was a fair estimate for earlier versions of Mac OS X (I ran the
public beta through 10.2.8 on a 6 GB hard disk), but not anymore. And
it'll probably get larger over time... I still remember when people
were complaining that System 7 took a whopping 4 MB of disk space to
install... We've come a long way since then.
Yes, things have changed. I am not too fussed about the size required,
just that it is inflexible with regards to moving things onto other
partitions (with appropriate symbolic links in place). Others have
suggested mounts would work, but I like the flexibility of symbolic
links and having to repartition is a real time waster for me.
Cheers,
Ashley.
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Ashley Aitken
Perth, Western Australia
mrhatken at mac dot com
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