Re: XCode on the App Store
Re: XCode on the App Store
- Subject: Re: XCode on the App Store
- From: Erik Stainsby <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:10:42 -0700
This list must be a total laugh riot on April 1st. I can't wait.
On 2012-06-19, at 9:47 PM, Don Quixote de la Manvha <email@hidden> wrote:
> I want to download all of the documentation to every version of Xcode that has ever existed so I can archive it on my company's file server as well as my offsite backup that. I keep in a safe deposit box at my bank.
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> I am the very most productive as a coder if I have no hope at all of connecting to the Internet in any way.
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> To give that a retry yourself, turn off Airport, disconnect your Ethernet, turn off WiFi on all your devices then set them all to Airplane Mode.
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> Now try - I dare you, I double dog dare you - to look up doc in Xcode.
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> As for why each of us would do well to create secure multiple offsite backups of every software package we've ever used, consider that I myself have extensive with Digital Equipment Corporation FORTRAN, COBOL and BASIC, Borland Turbo Pascal, Lightspeed C for Mac OS 5, Lattice C for MS-DOS, Metrowerks CodeWarrior for Windows, Apple Macintosh Programmer's Workshop, and that I myself am one of the primary architects of Sapiens Software Star Sapphire Common LISP for MS-DOS, at one time a leading Artificial Intelligence software development platform.
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> There are vast quantities of source code files readily available on anonymous FTP servers all over G-d's Creation that are either Free Software or in the Public Domain that solve all manner of today's problems but that solved those problems as early as the 1950s.
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> To have any hope whatsoever of porting those solutions to today's platforms, we need yesterdays development tools, granted, but far more important:
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> We need yesterday's documentation.
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> Your Servant,
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> Don Quixote de la Mancha
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Jun 19, 2012, at 5:32 PM, Fritz Anderson <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> On 19 Jun 2012, at 2:40 PM, Gavin Stokes wrote:
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>>> How do we communicate to [insert responsible party here] that this is unacceptable? It has been brought up repeatedly. I want to install the documentation with Xcode, from disk. Right away, every time.
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>> Every gigabyte of it. Whether you need every SDK or not. Because we all loved devoting our afternoons to downloading Xcode. And then downloading all the documentation again, because the docs get updated several times between releases of Xcode.
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>> I can accept the way it is now.
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>> — F
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