Re: Documentation still not being installed
Re: Documentation still not being installed
- Subject: Re: Documentation still not being installed
- From: G S <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:57:30 -0700
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Ronald Hayden <email@hidden> wrote:
> If you ran Xcode after installing it should have downloaded the docs. If you did run Xcode (and especially if it's still not downloading the docs) please file a bug that includes a screenshot of the Documentation preferences window.
Thanks for the information.
I didn't run Xcode, nor should I have to. Nowhere did the installer
say that I needed to, so why would I? I was setting up the machine
from scratch with a new Lion installation, going through all the
applications I needed and installing them. Now I'm supposed to run
every single app on the machine, looking for Easter-egg installations?
This design is irresponsible and lacks common sense. If I'm
downloading a massive SDK, it stands to reason I've allocated the time
or bandwidth to do so. Why would I then want to be surprised at some
later date with another download for the documentation?
My scenario provides the obvious example of why that's unacceptable.
And even if I had Internet access, I might be at some remote location
with a relatively slow mobile data card. Or, heaven forbid, I have
some work to do NOW and I need to look something up without waiting
for yet another massive download. These are all very good reasons
that the current design is stupid, and I can't think of one reason
that it's wise. The idea of saving download time initially just
doesn't stand up to even superficial consideration. Unless the
contention is that the majority of users will NEVER use the
documentation.
I did file a bug on this, but it's sad that I had to.
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