Re: Desperate for Xcode Help
Re: Desperate for Xcode Help
- Subject: Re: Desperate for Xcode Help
- From: "William C. McCain" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:08:13 -0800
Brian Onn wrote:
I've been reading your experience here with interest. I'm like you;
I'm 42, I cut my teeth on old systems with command lines
I'm 63 (gasp) and I started my career at IBM, where I worked on TSO and CMS.
For most of my own software builds I'm more comfortable throwing
together a complex Makefile
Actually, I stopped using makefiles about 10 years ago. Why? Well,
even during my last five years of employment, when I was a direct report
to the Chief Technology Officer (at Novell), I did one-person projects
(sizable projects, but "just me"). I got sick and tired of building
(and maintaining!) makefiles with complex dependency trees, so I
switched to using scripts (and .bat files) that simply "compiled
everything".
Makefiles really address two problems: coordination of changes made by
multiple developers, and computers that were too slow to build the
entire project (I've heard of groups that scheduled their builds to run
overnight, because they took that long).
With today's fast computers, the second reason is seldom an issue
anymore. And if you "work alone", neither is the first issue.
I like Xcode, it doesn't hide too much from you, there is plenty
of documentation and help guides from Apple, and it seems only to be a
driver for the underlying command tools.
The same is true of M$FT's "Visual Studio". At least, that was the case
the last time I looked at it (about five years ago).
Nice to meet you!
Likewise,
Bill
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