Re: What is a project?
Re: What is a project?
- Subject: Re: What is a project?
- From: Ken Thomases <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:34:31 -0500
On Apr 28, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Ken Brooks wrote:
I'm having a curious problem. In a school environment, I want to
set up an Xcode project, store it on the server, and allow my
students to take copies of it as the starting point for their
projects. The server is not a Macintosh, it is a Windows domain
server. And something gets lost in translation. On a machine other
than the originating machine, the project comes out looking like a
folder. It has lost its Xcode identity.
I look into the matter more closely. .xcodeproj objects are in
fact folders, they act like "package" folders, you can ask it to
"show package contents", but they do not actually have the package
bit set. Using a utility like file Buddy to set the package bit
does not help this problem.
So the question is, how does Xcode identify that a folder is in
fact an Xcode project file? And how can I maintain or reconstruct
that identity while passing it through a non-Macintosh server?
There's nothing special about the folder, except the extension on its
name. Xcode.app declares which document types it supports. Among
the types is the "Xcode Project File", which can have one of several
extensions including .xcodeproj. That type is also described as
being a package. This is all declared by the Info.plist in Xcode.app.
So, on any Mac with the developer tools installed, a folder with the
extension .xcodeproj should be recognized as a package and an Xcode
project file.
Cheers,
Ken
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