Re: Using Snow Leopard for development (was: NSString Retain Count of 2147483647)
Re: Using Snow Leopard for development (was: NSString Retain Count of 2147483647)
- Subject: Re: Using Snow Leopard for development (was: NSString Retain Count of 2147483647)
- From: Clark Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:10:03 -0700
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Nick Beadman<email@hidden> wrote:
> Bill et al,
>
> Assuming we do have access to Snow Leopard seeds, and this question can be
> answered in a generic enough way to be aired in public without violating the
> NDA, does any one have any tricks or tips to aid development on a moving
> target?
>
> Quite apart from the completely controllable settings within Xcode to target
> a deployment target that is different from the one being developed upon
> there is the issue of continual installation and having the rest of our
> "digital life" along for the ride. This must be a problem that is at least
> solved within Apple but I am wondering if anyone is prepared to document how
> they continually update to a new seed release while maintaining their data.
> It is not clear to me that installation over a previous version is possible,
> or more honestly recommended, and doing Archive and Install every time seems
> fairly time consuming.
Without mentioning anything specific to Snow Leopard (as I've used
this strategy since the Panther days), my advice (and what I do
personally) is to always have my home directory on a separate
partition. That way, I can always do a clean install on my boot
partition without affecting any of my data.
Additionally, I like to keep a small partition available that I can
use in place of an installation DVD when I use a downloaded OS. In
general, this is my partition scheme:
OS Partition (usually about 40 GB)
OS Install Image Partition (9 GB; big enough for a dual layer DVD)
Data Partition (all of the remaining space)
When I want to install a new OS from a dmg:
1) I use asr (or Disk Utility) to restore the image to my 9GB partition
2) I boot from that partition, and do a clean install to my 40 GB partition
3) I adjust my account information to point to my home directory on
the Data Partition
I'm sure others have different strategies, but this one has served me
well over the past several years (and continued to serve me well after
I became an Apple employee, and ended up installing new builds of the
os nearly once a day).
--
Clark S. Cox III
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