Re: Xcode and Confidentiality (was: xcode 2.2 editor problem)
Re: Xcode and Confidentiality (was: xcode 2.2 editor problem)
- Subject: Re: Xcode and Confidentiality (was: xcode 2.2 editor problem)
- From: Dair Grant <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 20:46:00 +0000
Greg Hurrell wrote:
>What stance do other developers in my situation adopt with respect to
>trying out these new Xcode builds? I know that the use of pre-release
>software is always a "use at your own risk" affair, but I'm wondering
>how many decide to actually run that risk on their production
>machines. Thoughts?
I never install them, for exactly this reason - we don't have a
dedicated build machine for preparing releases to clients, so it's
normally the main engineer on a project who prepares the build.
It is a bit frustrating, as you end up reading about bugs which have
been fixed and get pestered by Radar to re-test bugs you've filed (which
won't happen, so it's not consequence-free for Apple). On the plus side,
you never run the risk of shipping anything important with pre-release
tools.
I would really like it if Xcode was, like CW, a "regular application".
I.e., one you could install anywhere, and have multiple versions of it
installed simultaneously. I regularly used to keep 3 releases of CW on
the same machine for current/legacy projects - but Xcode is much more of
an all-or-nothing affair.
This gets worse with multiple developers: upgrading tools just prior to
a release is always risky, so if you have several projects overlapping
it's difficult to find a good time for everyone (even more so if the
project format changes).
At the moment the Mac OS X build environment (i.e., Xcode and the SDK
system) is, IMO, too tightly bound to the OS - if you want multiple
Xcodes you need multiple boot partitions, and switching between them
means a reboot.
-dair
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