Re: Xcode 3.2.6 on Lion ?
Re: Xcode 3.2.6 on Lion ?
- Subject: Re: Xcode 3.2.6 on Lion ?
- From: Alexander von Below <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:41:32 +0200
Am 21.07.2011 um 15:58 schrieb Fritz Anderson:
> On 21 Jul 2011, at 7:18 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
>> I'd like to know what is the easiest way to keep my Xcode 3.2.6 when upgrading my computer for Lion. Does the Lion installation leave the developer folder in place, or should I first move it away to keep it, perhaps archived?
>
> If I were you, I'd rename the old /Developer folder
That's what I do, and it has never failed me.
> I don't know whether the official-release installer lets you choose and name the folder that receives Xcode 4.1. In fact, I'd be very grateful if someone would tell me.
It does. That said, there used to be an error in that particular feature of the Xcode installer a long time ago but as you know: Once bitten, twice shy.
>>> People with legacy projects depend on it.
>>
>> Also (some) developers, like me, who want their apps to be backward compatible to 10.5 or earlier.
> ...
> However, it was always a useful trick to set the active SDK to an earlier version for a build or two, so you could be sure you weren't relying on API that wasn't available in the latest SDK. Apple people, at least publicly and on this list, have been so pointedly obtuse on the question that I wonder if they haven't been instructed not to acknowledge it. One could speculate (and it would be only speculation) on why that is.
Well, my point was mostly about projects that actually are not (easily) convertible to Xcode 4's way of doing things. Those are not many, but they exist.
But to your point: I absolutely agree with your wonder. I believe that all the headers contain that information in machine readable form, why on this planet can't Xcode 4 tell me "You are using an API that is not available on your deployment target", so I can take care of that (i.e. do run-time checks or avoid using that API)
Anyway, there are many good and valid reasons to use Xcode 3 on Lion, and I can tell you: It works just perfectly fine.
Alex
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