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Who are all these developers that can't spend $5 on a interim release of developer tools? Perhaps they should reconsider being developers, just stick with XCod

by poutine 15y ago

Who are all these developers that can't spend $5 on a interim release of developer tools? Perhaps they should reconsider being developers, just stick with XCode 3 or wait for Lion. So many people just seem to want to bitch about Apple because it makes them feel better about their technology choices.

jarin 15y ago
If you really can't afford it, just pirate it. It's not like Xcode has a CD key or anything, and I'd be shocked if Apple started mobilizing the lawyers to go after illegal Xcode downloaders. If you're not motivated or resourceful enough to scrounge up a few bucks for an iTunes gift card, I doubt BitTorrent is a totally foreign concept to you anyway.
bradleyland 15y ago
I really wish the author had excluded the $5 issue altogether, because for me, it's completely irrelevant. It's all the other factors that drive me nuts. * Download a large 4.5GB file * Spend a decent amount of time installing XCode * Sacrifice 15GB of disk space to an app they likely won't use I upgraded to a 256 GB SSD in January. This means that every GB counts on my disk. I never launch XCode. There are a couple of utilities included that are useful, but I literally never use any of the XCode tools, and I have no intention of developing an iOS application. Running DaisyDisk against my /Developer folder shows that 8.4 GB of the space is occupied by "Platforms", which contains iOS related platform and simulator files. For developers who don't develop specifically for OS X/iOS, there is a lot of baggage here. I'd still happily pay the $5 if I could get a trimmed down "XCode Express" install that didn't include any of the platform target stuff. As it stands now, I'm afraid to delete it because I don't want to go through the hassle of downloading and reinstalling (however you do that) such a large package.

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Who are all these developers that can't spend $5 on a interim release of developer tools? Perhaps they should reconsider being developers, just stick with XCod

by poutine 15y ago

jarin 15y ago
If you really can't afford it, just pirate it. It's not like Xcode has a CD key or anything, and I'd be shocked if Apple started mobilizing the lawyers to go after illegal Xcode downloaders. If you're not motivated or resourceful enough to scrounge up a few bucks for an iTunes gift card, I doubt BitTorrent is a totally foreign concept to you anyway.
bradleyland 15y ago
I really wish the author had excluded the $5 issue altogether, because for me, it's completely irrelevant. It's all the other factors that drive me nuts. * Download a large 4.5GB file * Spend a decent amount of time installing XCode * Sacrifice 15GB of disk space to an app they likely won't use I upgraded to a 256 GB SSD in January. This means that every GB counts on my disk. I never launch XCode. There are a couple of utilities included that are useful, but I literally never use any of the XCode tools, and I have no intention of developing an iOS application. Running DaisyDisk against my /Developer folder shows that 8.4 GB of the space is occupied by "Platforms", which contains iOS related platform and simulator files. For developers who don't develop specifically for OS X/iOS, there is a lot of baggage here. I'd still happily pay the $5 if I could get a trimmed down "XCode Express" install that didn't include any of the platform target stuff. As it stands now, I'm afraid to delete it because I don't want to go through the hassle of downloading and reinstalling (however you do that) such a large package.