Re: dev files location advice
Re: dev files location advice
- Subject: Re: dev files location advice
- From: "Rick C." <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:00:32 +0800
Yeah a lot of this I think goes back to older Xcode 3 projects. And yes that's primarily it old builds, betas, releases, etc. And yes I probably don't use the version control the best that I should, but I see this too in Xcode 4 the organizer keeps everything out of the way...
Ok well this is pretty much what I expected but helpful. I will make sure I improve my workflow here and in the process I understand it will clean up the issues I mentioned. Thanks and I'll post back if I have further questions...
rc
On Jul 23, 2012, at 10:33 PM, Fritz Anderson <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 22 Jul 2012, at 9:41 PM, Rick C. wrote:
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>> I have always kept my work (Xcode projects, etc.) in my Home folder in a subdirectory "My Work". I had 2 problems with this:
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>> 1. Depending upon the file types my projects deal with when I use the right-click Open With for normal use it will show countless development builds of my apps in the menu
>> 2. In the App Store my apps always show that there's an update available even though I have the latest version installed in /Applications. I assume all the development builds confuse the system
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>> So I moved the My Work directory to root and I thought it might be a bit better on the file types issue but hard to say. Same problem with the App Store issue. So curious, where do you keep your "development work" and any ideas how to make these 2 issues I described better? Thanks,
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> My setup is the same, as far as you describe it, and I'd think it's very common. What you've fixed on seems to be a red herring. What else are you doing?
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> What version of Xcode? What SDK?
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> Where are you putting your derived data? That's what I think of as "development work," and where "development builds" go (and are replaced with each build, so there shouldn't be dozens).
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> Are you keeping duplicate copies of your application? That's trouble. (A concept I've spent hours beating into clients. "The new beta doesn't fix the AppleScript bugs!" Did you delete/archive the last beta? "Huh? Which? I've got dozens.")
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> If you have dozens of apps with the same bundle ID, handling the same file type X, the right answer to the question of what app handles file X is "dozens." If you double-click the file, the copy that will be launched is indeterminate. It appears that the App Store application's test of what version is installed is also indeterminate.
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> Delete or zip obsolete copies of your app; if (because you are sane) you have tagged your version-control repository for each release,* you can rebuild them anyway, and not need to keep the products around. Failing that, the "Xcode Archive" option from the "Distribute…" button in the Archives organizer is for exactly the purpose of keeping an executable and its debugging data on record, but out of the way.
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> * (I really should file a radar begging for tag support in Xcode.)
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> — F
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> Fritz Anderson -- Xcode 4 Unleashed: Now in stores! -- <http://x4u.manoverboard.org/>
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