On May 4, 2016, at 8:30 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: 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.
OK. Fine points, for sure. I'll give you that. So, when using the App Store, (1) how do you save the installer if you need to install Xcode on more than one Mac?
(2) How do you stop it when it's completed downloading, locate the installer and copy the installer to your other 5 machines?
It's easy to do this when you download the file using a browser. It's another set of things to worry about when you are faced with this situation on a regular basis and have to use the App Store and I don't know about you guys, but I don't want another set of things to worry about.
So, aside from my harshing your mellow, are there solutions to my points 1 and 2?
And also, if someone is wacky enough to have set up OS X Server, can the Xcode upgrade be handled through OS X Server?
Muchos thankos, sir.
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