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Xcode 7.3.1 is available on the Mac app store

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Re: Xcode 7.3.1 is available on the Mac app store

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Post by dv_dt »

rbritton wrote: post #5
askyourmother wrote: post #3

Holy multi-GB download Batman! How do developers on slow and metered connection deal with this?

Not on that kind of connection, but I can rarely successfully download something that large from the App Store on the first attempt. I've found it far better to get from the tools area of the developer member center.

What I'm always shocked at is that the App Store doesn't seem to have any capability to resume a download.

Re: Xcode 7.3.1 is available on the Mac app store

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Post by k-mcgrady »

regnet wrote: post #7
askyourmother wrote: post #3

Holy multi-GB download Batman! How do developers on slow and metered connection deal with this?

I see 235 MB http://i.imgur.com/ZuxebCJ.png

You're probably seeing the delta update and OP is looking at the full Xcode download.

Re: Xcode 7.3.1 is available on the Mac app store

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Post by askyourmother »

mwfunk wrote: post #12
askyourmother wrote: post #3

Holy multi-GB download Batman! How do developers on slow and metered connection deal with this?

How do developers on a slow and metered connection download OS updates? Surely that's 100x worse.

A good point - some updates from apple are again multi-GB.

Re: Xcode 7.3.1 is available on the Mac app store

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Post by grandalf »

dv_dt wrote: post #11
rbritton wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not on that kind of connection, but I can rarely successfully download something that large from the App Store on the first attempt. I've found it far better to get from the tools area of the developer member center.

What I'm always shocked at is that the App Store doesn't seem to have any capability to resume a download.

The app store on OSX is among the buggiest pieces of software I've ever used.

- on opening it's very slow to render the first screen

- on clicking, the "updates" tab is extremely slow to display anything.

- clicking to initiate an update often doesn't do anything, and multiple subsequent clicks are required

- once an update is initiated and downloading, the state is often inaccurate on the updates screen

- often after clicking "update all", only some of the updates actually begin. This happens on the IOS app store too.

This is with a fast (120 megabits per second) connection and a top of the line 15" macbook pro.

Re: Xcode 7.3.1 is available on the Mac app store

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Post by ChristinaM »

mwfunk wrote: post #12
askyourmother wrote: post #3

Holy multi-GB download Batman! How do developers on slow and metered connection deal with this?

How do developers on a slow and metered connection download OS updates? Surely that's 100x worse.

I'm travelling semi-permanently (away from "home" ~9 months now). I had to update OS X and Xcode recently. 11GB fortunately only took 2 days (and $60 of data charges) since I'm somewhere with ok cell LTE. I did have to delay the update for a month or two until I was somewhere I could do it.

Re: Xcode 7.3.1 is available on the Mac app store

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Post by boticus_prime »

askyourmother wrote: post #3

Holy multi-GB download Batman! How do developers on slow and metered connection deal with this?

For those with slow or unreliable connections, you may want to take a look at this Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/osx/comments/3nc6ol/could_any_one_e...

It Explains how to use wget to download Xcode...which will allow you to stop and resume the download if needed.

Re: Xcode 7.3.1 is available on the Mac app store

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Post by jeremyhu »

0x0 wrote: post #8

That's a really long time to patch that critical git 2.7.4 vulnerability. Have they even patched the openssh UseRoaming bug yet? Using only Apple tools to interface with foreign git repositories on the internet is a high risk sport these days (weeks (months))...

Upstream fixed the issue a couple days before Xcode 7.3 was released (and didn't even have their story straight about what version actually contained the fix). The fix was available in the 7.3.1 beta less than a month later, so I'm not sure where you get "months" from there.

As for the OpenSSH issues you mention (CVE-0216-0777 and CVE-0216-0778), those were fixed in OS X 10.11.4 months ago.

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