Re: Guidelines for talking about Xcode 2.5 on this list
Re: Guidelines for talking about Xcode 2.5 on this list
- Subject: Re: Guidelines for talking about Xcode 2.5 on this list
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:11:17 -0700
On 2007-08-23, at 17:57:56, Rosyna wrote:
I'd have to strongly disagree with that remark about SetFile.
Apple's own support article tell end users to run it.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305402
Yes, they're actually suggesting that end users download the Xcode
tools (at 924megs and needs an ADC account..), install them, and
run a simple command with SetFile.
So it looks to me as if SetFile has moved to "end user" command
line tool.
Right. The idea of asking a user to first register a developer
account, and then do a huge download to solve a simple problem is not
appealing as a solution.
Rez, DeRez, GetFileInfo, and SetFile address scenarios that come up
fairly regularly for AppleScript (and other scripting language)
users. Also 'sdp' is another tool in the same category.
What about the notion of a "Dev-Tools-Mini" download which would
include those tools and possibly not require the user to register a
developer account?
(And yes, that's an example of an absolutely horrid kbase article
by Apple, they should have just written a one-off tool and included
it as a download).
Ack, at 8/23/07, Scott Tooker said:
Also for GetFileInfo and SetFile.
I don't think you'll see those tools move to the base install of
Mac OS X since they are considered developer tools.
Philip Aker
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