Annoyingly it won't let me download the 10.7 documentation but it lets me browse it. Oh well, guess I should just register as a dev already.
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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This keeps coming up every now and then. What's the difference between Xcode and iTunes that lets them give iTunes updates for free?
That's a good question, but unfortunately I'm not privy to Apple's internal workings to give you an accurate answer. The general metric seems to be "Does it add value to the core product?" This is the same reason iOS updates are free to the iPhone but not to the iPod Touch — the iPhone is viewed as a multi-year investment (and reflected as such in Apple's accounting), while the iPod Touch is a shrinkwrap product that…
I read something somewhere (can't remember where) that Apple is starting to spread the sale of new macs (starting with machines with Lion on them) over some longer period of time.
This would apparently set things up for providing new features (ostensibly iCloud) without having to charge small increments and still adhere to their conservative SOX interpretation.
edit: found it. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/19/apple_to_incre...
Re: Xcode 4.1 now available free from the Mac App Store
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
It should. But if you're still having trouble, I found using this will always work for me: sudo ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 pip install
Yeah, I think I finally found that tip after trying quite a number of things. And hooray, lxml and PIL both appear to have installed successfully on Lion + Xcode 4.1.
With or without the ARCHFLAGS tip?
Re: Xcode 4.1 now available free from the Mac App Store
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Waste" $5 for an toolset that could possibly make you a millionaire? Really, it's about the same price as a hammer...
xcode is a tool, and has near the same potential to make you a millionaire that a pencil does. if you paid $5 for a pencil, to be told a few days later that the same pencil was being offered freely, would wish you had waited for the free pencil?
I'd look at it this way, did having XCode for an extra couple of months generate $5 of value for you? If so then it was a good deal.
Re: Xcode 4.1 now available free from the Mac App Store
#105Edit: 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…
Interesting, I got the notice and quit iTunes same as you - I stared at the notice for a bit thinking "hmm, I did quit iTunes..." But then I got distracted doing something else and a couple minutes later I heard the ding that something finished installing (Xcode). So, for anyone else reading this, try just going to make a sandwich :)
Re: Xcode 4.1 now available free from the Mac App Store
#106Requirements: Mac OS X 10.7 or later
Damn I planned to update to Lion soon, but not so soon. Seems like we'll be spending tomorrow updating, after figuring out how to get Lion on everybodys iTunes account. Give us some time apple!
You can still get the newest Xcode from developer.apple.com as usual, no? Or continue using your current one? You have all the time you need :)
Re: Xcode 4.1 now available free from the Mac App Store
#107I want my 5 bucks back :-|
I'll buy you a coffee...
Re: Xcode 4.1 now available free from the Mac App Store
#108I'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.
Just install both alongside each other.
Re: Xcode 4.1 now available free from the Mac App Store
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Probably worth noting that you can seamlessly boot Mac OS X from external USB storage. Just plug the drive in before booting and hold down the "option" key when you power on.
But older OSes often don't run correctly on newer hardware.
Re: Xcode 4.1 now available free from the Mac App Store
#110Edit: 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…
I just had the install hang at the end, hitting the close button on the window after waiting entirely too long causes its "installhelper" process to jump to 100% CPU (probably spinning on a closed pipe).
I have to agree -- the packaging on this is complete shit.