Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Xcode project query

[Christopher Jerome <christopher_jerome@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Phil, Chris here.

I don't know what the hell the dudes at Apple were thinking, when  
they designed Xcode in that way.

I think it would be very much an improvement to Xcode if they only  
put SOME certain kinds of options at the main root 'project' level  
and ONLY others at the 'target(s)' level, Whatever on Earth the  
product's name or the product type (Application, Framework, Bundle,  
command line executable, static Libarary Shared Library etc), for  
instance, is set at a 'project' level for beats me.

I think it would make more logical sense for those kond of things to  
be set at a 'target' level.

I have placed some feedback with Apple on this, but have not heard  
more about it since, But I must say also that Xcode has improved  
quite a hell of a lot, since it was NeXt's 'ProjectBuilder'.

It would be actually quite interesting to hear what you people's view  
is on this matter. But in most other ways Apple has it quite 90%  
right, spot-on in other places.

It's just that I may have a different view of software engineering  
and coding in general, and that I like to TRY and do it right, in a  
way that also make's sense, for our user's and US, the developer's  
and other various 'geeks' as well.

I would really love to go into a deep discussion on these matters  
with Apple's Developer Tools team, but cannot seem to get any  
response from them at all. I know, and a few friends of mine know  
that what I am saying has quite a lot of potential to improve things  
on OS X for us Application developers and system programmers, A  
really well thought out, and a great OS with a FEW underlying faults  
that are REALLY at the developer toolchain level, I find this to be a  
royal pain in the %@#$@!^& bum. some of the toolchain problems are,  
from what I have found out by rummaging around in Darwin source code,  
is some confusion, and out of date tool's at the BSD/Unix/GCC level  
of things.

anyway, tell me your views on these matters I have brought up here.

Bye for now,
Chris Jerome.


On 10/04/2006, at 10:49 PM, Phil Martin wrote:

 enabled in two levels and that /both/ have to be turned off to get  
normal linking. (I.e. both in Target Options and Project Options).  
The project now attempts to link and I am working through the  
undefined symbols. Some of them may be caused by the xcode project  
containing files which are not in the makefile. A methodical (semi- 
automated) way of transferring that file list from the makefile to  
the xcode project would be very useful - I'm doing it empirically at  
the moment, similar to