Re: /Applications (Was Re: XCode 4 Questions)

"William H. Magill" <[email protected]>
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On Mar 13, 2011, at 3:16 PM, LuKreme wrote:

> On Mar 12, 2011, at 14:46, Lawrence Sica <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>> Like XCode 3, you can install it in its own directory.  But it installs a new unix toolchain and you can only have one of those installed IIRC from the release notes
>> 
>> They moved it to /Applications.  The toolchain is the latest but includes gcc and llvm now.
> 
> Is anyone else concerned with the new over-reliance on /Applications? I was rather annoyed to find that the App Store would not let you specify ~/Applications as its download target, and now some of the developer things like XCode and unnamed others are also being dropped in /Applications where, to my mind, they have no business being.
> 
> I'm getting tired of manually having to manage every App Store download. 

X-code used to install by default into /developer/applications.

One wonders if somebody blew the installation script.

Hmm... I wonder if my old "non-paid" developer status lets me down load Xcode 4?
  
 ... nope... developer.apple.com still recognizes  my login, but tells me I'm not part of the "Developer Programs." :(

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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