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Re: Project dependencies and build styles
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Re: Project dependencies and build styles


  • Subject: Re: Project dependencies and build styles
  • From: David Catmull <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:14:19 -0700

On Apr 21, 2005, at 3:50 PM, Dave Camp wrote:
I would guess because most people normally expect/want their dependent projects all built the same way.

Conceptually, yes, but in practice, my library projects require different style settings than my application project does.


Further investigation (which admittedly I should have done before mailing the list) turned up the fact that the xcodebuild command-line tool applies *no* build style to subprojects. That's a little better, I think.

As a workaround for this issue, I tried a shell script build phase instead of using dependencies, but it was slower and the way it comes out in the Build Results window isn't as nice to work with. In any case, when I'm using the XCode app, I shouldn't have to use the command line tool for anything. That's the point of having a GUI app. (Unless I need to get really fancy, but I don't think this qualifies.)

My impression is not that someone thought this was a good idea, but that they didn't have time (or it wasn't a high priority) to implement a better solution.

Perhaps you should have three choices (as a project setting) for choosing build styles for subprojects:
- Use the subproject's own style with a matching name, if any, otherwise none.
- Use the master project's style.
- Use no style.


That's the best relatively simple solution I can think of.

I'd suggest logging a feature request for a per-project setting that disables this behavior for users like yourself. I can see how that would be useful in some circumstances.

Done: 4095592

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David Catmull
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http://www.uncommonplace.com/

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