On May 4, 2016, at 17:06 , Roland King <email@hidden> wrote:
Don’t use the app store for Xcode.
I understand you’re going to be unforgiving after getting burned by the app store app, but I get Xcode that way pretty much all the time these days, without problems. The downsides to the store app:
-1. It’s a really slow, really bad app.
-2. It doesn’t reliably tell you when it’s downloading what you asked it to download. That leads to an evil cycle where you keep stopping an update that doesn’t seem to be progressing, thus preventing it from ever progressing to the end.
The upsides to the store app:
+1. It enables the download of delta updates. Xcode 7.3.1 was a <1 minute download with 7.3 installed.
+2. The store download comes pre-gatekeepered. This saves up to 20 minutes in installation time, vs the DMG download.
(Also, whichever way you download, moving the old Xcode to the trash instead of installing over the top of it seems to add another 20 minutes to the installation time. This may just be the Finder preflighting the trashing, not the installation process itself, but it’s another annoyance.)
The key point is that there are valid reasons to use the store app for Xcode, if you can bear it.
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