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Xcode 4.1 now available free from the Mac App Store

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Re: Xcode 4.1 now available free from the Mac App Store

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Post by mattmichielsen »

epistasis wrote: post #50

Edit: found a fix, if quitting iTunes isn't enough for the installer, you need to launch the Activity Monitor and manually kill the "iTunes Helper" process. What a pain. This seems extremely half-baked. The App Store doesn't install Xcode, it just downloads an installer for Xcode, and ever-so-helpfully places it in LaunchPad. After launching the installer and letting it run for many minutes, it silently popped up a w…

The "please quit iTunes" thing happened to me with Xcode 4.0 on 10.6 as well. Pretty ridiculous.

Re: Xcode 4.1 now available free from the Mac App Store

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Post by X-Istence »

younata wrote: post #32

I stated back when xcode 4 was released that when 10.7 came out, they'd make it free. [1] Just had to wait a while. Xcode 3 has been good and free to use (and still is). [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2311422

You are not the only one that stated that ... many, including myself are on that same list.

Re: Xcode 4.1 now available free from the Mac App Store

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Post by fredoliveira »

avree wrote: post #23

I grabbed the GM release of Xcode for 10.7 from developer.apple.com. Will installing this from the App Store cause issues?

No issues. Your version of Lion is identical to the one people are downloading from the App Store. It'll run this XCode version normally.

Re: Xcode 4.1 now available free from the Mac App Store

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Post by gavingmiller »

Hisoka wrote: post #13

I'm kinda hesitant to get this as they always change a lot... all those iPhone development tutorials are very specific to a certain version. It took me awhile to find out how to deploy an iPhone app for the newer Xcode.

I agree with your hesitation if you've done zero xcode 3 development. I just completed my first xcode 4 based project last night, and the instructions on Apple's site (for binary signing, and the like) have yet to be updated for xcode 4 - since the process is already complicated enough, had I not done it before with xcode 3 I would have been completely out to lunch.

With that said, if you're comfortable with xcode 3, you shouldn't have a problem switching to xcode 4.

Re: Xcode 4.1 now available free from the Mac App Store

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Post by fredoliveira »

mattmichielsen wrote: post #51
epistasis wrote: post #50

Edit: found a fix, if quitting iTunes isn't enough for the installer, you need to launch the Activity Monitor and manually kill the "iTunes Helper" process. What a pain. This seems extremely half-baked. The App Store doesn't install Xcode, it just downloads an installer for Xcode, and ever-so-helpfully places it in LaunchPad. After launching the installer and letting it run for many minutes, it silently popped up a w…

The "please quit iTunes" thing happened to me with Xcode 4.0 on 10.6 as well. Pretty ridiculous.

The Xcode installation asks you to close iTunes because of iTuneshelper and how iTunes will sync devices (including development devices) when they're plugged in. It makes sense that Xcode asks you to quit itunes (and kills ituneshelper too) to update files. It isn't ridiculous.

Re: Xcode 4.1 now available free from the Mac App Store

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Post by younata »

X-Istence wrote: post #52
younata wrote: post #32

I stated back when xcode 4 was released that when 10.7 came out, they'd make it free. [1] Just had to wait a while. Xcode 3 has been good and free to use (and still is). [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2311422

You are not the only one that stated that ... many, including myself are on that same list.

I should have considered that I certainly wasn't the only one, and I shouldn't be so self-centered in the future. My bad.

Re: Xcode 4.1 now available free from the Mac App Store

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Post by cpr »

chc wrote: post #22
beagle3 wrote: post #10

Question to mac developers: Does Apple let you in any way develop/debug/test programs for older operating systems? If I bought a newly-released-today MacBookAir with Lion, but I want to develop software that would still run on 10.6 and 10.5 - what's the official (and unofficial) ways to do that?

Xcode can always target one or two versions back. As for testing, you have two options: 1. Buy old hardware as a dedicated testing server and run the older operating systems on different partitions 2. Run the older versions in VMWare (10.6 can do this, but I'm not positive about 10.5) If you don't have 10.6, it's still available for free through the Mac Developer Program.

10.5 ia also available for download through the Mac dev resource subsite.

Re: Xcode 4.1 now available free from the Mac App Store

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Post by [deleted] »

fredoliveira wrote: post #55
mattmichielsen wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "please quit iTunes" thing happened to me with Xcode 4.0 on 10.6 as well. Pretty ridiculous.

The Xcode installation asks you to close iTunes because of iTuneshelper and how iTunes will sync devices (including development devices) when they're plugged in. It makes sense that Xcode asks you to quit itunes (and kills ituneshelper too) to update files. It isn't ridiculous.

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