Re: Xcode 8.2 and Mac xib settings: can't set to Xcode 7.x format?
Re: Xcode 8.2 and Mac xib settings: can't set to Xcode 7.x format?
- Subject: Re: Xcode 8.2 and Mac xib settings: can't set to Xcode 7.x format?
- From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 15:04:19 -0600
On Dec 20, 2016, at 1:13 PM, Sean McBride wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just updated from Xcode 7.3.1 on 10.11.6 to 8.2 on 10.12.2. I'm confused by the settings in the 'file inspector' for xib files.
>
> There is an 'opens in' setting that allows choosing "latest xcode (8.0)" or "Xcode 7.x". If I choose the latter, it presents a confirmation sheet then closes the document. When I visit the file inspector again, it's set back to "latest xcode (8.0)". This reproduces with a freshly created project.
>
> We like to have a transition where developers use newest Xcode, but the build bots are updated more conservatively and stay at the older version for a while longer.
>
> Can one no longer do this? :(
>
> Cheers,
>
Welcome to Xcode 8, good sir. If you simply touch the tile within Xcode 8, it converts it to Xcode 8.
In our company, everyone develops in Xcode 8 and they don't touch the XIBs and storyboards because of this. If they do, I have an 8 install that I use to set document type back to open in Xcode 7 and then I click off of it and commit the Xcode 7 friendly version to our git repo.
We still have to ship our iOS apps with Xcode 7.3.1, so this is what we have to do.
It's fun isn't it?
The trick is to set it to Xcode 7 but then the XIB or storyboard does not display within Xcode 8. So you end up clicking on it. And it sets it to 8 again. Simply put, if you want to edit an XIB or storyboard in Xcode 8, you need to set the format back to 7 when you're done and then commit it to the repo.
You have to set each XIB back to "Opens in Xcode 7" after you edit it. Every time. : / Sorry
Reminds me of the terrifying upgrade from Xcode 4.2 to 4.3.(3?) and suddenly after one of my team members edited the storyboards, every storyboard file reported that it was corrupted. Not that it was a newer format, but that it was corrupted. Fun times. Fun times.
- Alex Zavatone
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