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Re: Can we delete the whole /Developer directory now?
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Re: Can we delete the whole /Developer directory now?


  • Subject: Re: Can we delete the whole /Developer directory now?
  • From: Geoff Beier <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:25:01 -0400



On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 17:02, G S <email@hidden> wrote:
Since everything is piled inside Xcode.app now, is there any reason to keep the old stuff in /Developer?


For me, there was actually a compelling reason to delete (or at least rename) it. I use a fair few things that build from the command line, and it's not altogether uncommon for those build scripts to contain hardcoded paths pointing into /Developer. If there's an old version of the tools and SDKs sitting under there, the scripts can appear to succeed now then break later in hard-to-troubleshoot ways when used in combination with things built against new SDKs.  If you delete or rename /Developer, anything that's hardcoded to use that will break earlier and in such a way that it's easier to see what you need to fix.

Geoff
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