[Moderator]: End of Thread: "Re: Why are Xcode "updates" so friggin' big??"
[Moderator]: End of Thread: "Re: Why are Xcode "updates" so friggin' big??"
- Subject: [Moderator]: End of Thread: "Re: Why are Xcode "updates" so friggin' big??"
- From: Matthew Formica <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 17:57:51 -0800
Folks,
This thread has wandered far from the realm of specific tools usage
and coding issues. Let's consider this thread closed.
Thanks,
Matthew Formica
Developer Tools Software Evangelist
email@hidden
On Nov 2, 2006, at 4:53 PM, Jeffrey Oleander wrote:
Laurence Harris <email@hidden> wrote:
On 2006 Nov 2, at 11:06 AM, Sean McBride wrote:
On 2006-11-02 06:13, Andy O'Meara said:
I second that. We're all developers here, so it's not
unreasonable to require a broadband connection.
I don't see the connection. Does a developer have
to live in a 1st World urban area?
Yes.
What about people in rural areas?
Those people are called farmers.
Seymour Cray, the father of super-computing, once remarked,
"Parity is for farmers." (making a reference to government
price support programs)... but just a few years later
designed SEC-DED into his systems, as did the designers at
Control Data where he had previously worked. (SEC-DED ==
single error correction, double error detection)
Okay, just kidding on the last two. ;-)
What about poorer people that can't afford broadband?
Not all "developers" work for Fortune 500 companies
in office towers with T1s.
T1s are slow. Fiber to every room will make us free!
You hardly have to work for a Fortune 500 company
to have broadband, at least not in places like the U.S,
Canada, Japan, Europe and
Chennai, Bengaluru, Mumbai...
others. Over 50% of the people with Internet access
in the U.S. have a broadband connection. People
use cable modems, DSL, and even satellite services
to get broadband connectivity. I can get DSL for
$20/month, and that hardly qualifies as available
only to the ultra rich. I hear high speed cable
access in Canada is even cheaper than it is here...
Nearly always, it's good to have the option for a clean
start.
My wish-list item in this regard is for installers to
report what they've put where, and uninstallers to report
what they've removed from where.
And there should be an easy, clean way to do a full or
incremental update at a different location so that both can
be tested before de-installing one or the other. (In the
case of an incremental, it might optionally copy the
unchanged files to the new location to make the two set-ups
independent. Making both optional takes care of the poor
people with limited disk space. Of course, the most
tightly constrained should be able to choose a riskier
Replace option that automagically deinstalls before or as
it installs the new.)
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