Re: 4.3 question and old Developer folder
Re: 4.3 question and old Developer folder
- Subject: Re: 4.3 question and old Developer folder
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:06:51 -0800
On Feb 22, 2012, at 10:03 PM, Joar Wingfors wrote:
>
> On 22 feb 2012, at 17:21, Sean McBride wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:08:21 -0800, Matt Neuburg said:
>>
>>>> Agreed. It's never been our intention, or a good idea, that you should
>>> put anything in your developer folder.
>>>
>>> Nevertheless, putting older SDKs in there, e.g. to allow Simulator
>>> testing for backwards compatibility, has been standard operating
>>> procedure in the real world. Now, I take it, that will be impossible. m.
>>
>> Maybe they would work from Library/Developer...?
>
>
> That certainly sounds a whole lot better to me.
It sounds fine if it works, but are you saying it does? Because I don't think so.
My book and many other books talk about this technique of putting older SDKs into /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/. In fact, you don't even have to do it manually; if you installed a newer Xcode on top of an older Xcode, the older SDKs just stay there. And then you can use them to help test for backward compatibility.
But by putting everything into a protected bundle, Xcode 4.3 has just killed that.
As for the user's Library/Developer, I'm not aware that that's consulted for *anything* any more. For example, it used to be possible to design your own project templates and add them in the user Library and have them appear in the New Project dialog. But Xcode 4 killed that.
Xcode 4.3, it seems to me, is just one more nail in the coffin of user-configurable Xcode. Xcode 4.3 is a "my way or the highway" tool... m.
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