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Really great of Apple to make it require Lion. Release new OS product, shove it down devs throats.

• chc 15y ago
  Versions of Xcode have always been tied to versions of OS X. They actually did release Xcode 4 for Snow Leopard, which is more than they've done with any previous version, so complaining now of all times seems pretty odd.
  • clobber 15y ago
    Xcode 4 was in the spring and I'm pretty sure we saw this due to releases of iOS along with iOS 5 beta. Apple can't only tie Xcode releases to versions of OS X anymore, there's iOS they have to think about.
    • chc 15y ago
      iOS 4 SDK came with a version of Xcode 3, and iOS 5 comes with its own version of Xcode, neither 4.0 nor 4.1 — so it's not inherently tied to the normal Mac Xcode at all. iOS might have had something do to with the early release of Xcode 4, but releasing it for general consumption was a different matter. At any rate, this is not a regressive move for Apple.
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