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XCode Roundup

Posted by pudge on from the get-em-up-move-em-out dept.

Durin_Deathless writes "XCode 1.5 is now available to the general public through ADC. Highlights include dead code stripping, remote debugging, Subversion support, and improved editor speed. There's also a new GCC, which is supposed to compile faster, and lots of AppleScript changes. Also, code completion now works in Java and AppleScript." djabbour writes "Blizzard Entertainment develops its games simultaneously on the Windows and Mac OS X platforms. This article claims Xcode Tools 'play [a] critical role.'"

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  1. MacOS X, not Linux by kyhwana · · Score: 4, Informative

    Err, that's Windows and Mac OS X platforms, not windows and linux, yesh.

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  2. Re:Blizzard does Linux? by haschka · · Score: 4, Informative

    dualg5:~ haschka$ gcc -v
    Reading specs from /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/3.3/specs
    Thread model: posix
    gcc version 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1666)

    gcc 3.5 is only available in Xcode 2 which is part of tiger

  3. Re:can anyone else download it? by Milton+Waddams · · Score: 3, Informative

    I was having loads of problems downloading it. What worked for me was clicking the US2 mirror and copying the ftp URL in the address bar in Safari. Clicking stop in Safari. Opening up the Terminal and typing: ftp

    For some reason, the Apple dev mirrors really suck.

  4. Opportunity.... by skrysakj · · Score: 4, Informative

    Though this piece of news is a bit old, it's still noteworthy. Xcode, IMHO, is amazing and fun to use. Version 1.2 was too buggy, but I've found 1.5 to be a great improvement. I'm sure version 1.5.1 is on its way soon, if you read the Release Notes carefully enough, Apple admits to releasing 1.5 with 10 to 12 bugs, in semi-basic feature areas, most of which cause Xcode to crash.
    There are other IDE's available for other platforms, and though Xcode is one of the only ones for the Mac aside from CodeWarrior, I'd still give kudos to it, and Apple for making it.

    They seem to be really paying attention to what developers need. They're greatly improved their documentation in the past year, and Xcode is pretty darn developer friendly, now supporting Subversion.

  5. Re: Xcode vs. Xcode Tools by santiago · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Xcode Tools" is Apple's official name for the entire suite of developer tools, while "Xcode" is just the name of the IDE. Given that this is an official Apple PR article, I don't find it surprising that they conform to this naming protocol.

    (On a side note, this has caused confusion in the past. For one update (I believe it was 1.2), there was the Xcode 1.2 Update Available automatically through Software Update, which only updated the IDE. There was the separate Xcode Tools 1.2 download (not available automatically) that contained more updates for the entire suite. The product manager thus discovered that no one downloads ReadMe files for products before downloading the product itself.)