[megasad]

I installed the Developer Tools so that I can finally do the hints that require them, and maybe even get around to learning Objective-C and making those apps that I really want that no-one else seems to make.

Yippee so far.

However, I am anally-retentive when it comes to organisation, and the Developer folder that was stuck on my root partition is annoying me greatly. If I move it to /Applications/Extraneous/, will all be well? Or will some of the tools stop working?

Thank you kindly,
Simon

[hayesk]

Only one way to find out. Try it. If it doesn't work, put it back, or make a symbolic link at the root to point to your Developer folder in Applications/Extraneous.

To do this, open terminal and type:

sudo ln -s /Applications/Extraneous/Developer Developer

The reason for the symbolic link and not a simple alias, is that a lot of the tools run UNIX command line tools (like the compiler and debugger) and they may not like aliases.

[megasad]

Hokey doke, I'll try it tonight. Do you know whether making the symbolic link invisible will pose any problems?

[Detrius]

Originally posted by hayesk:
Only one way to find out. Try it. If it doesn't work, put it back, or make a symbolic link at the root to point to your Developer folder in Applications/Extraneous.

To do this, open terminal and type:

sudo ln -s /Applications/Extraneous/Developer Developer

The reason for the symbolic link and not a simple alias, is that a lot of the tools run UNIX command line tools (like the compiler and debugger) and they may not like aliases.

That should be:

sudo ln -s /Applications/Extraneous/Developer /Developer

[hayesk]

Originally posted by megasad:
Hokey doke, I'll try it tonight. Do you know whether making the symbolic link invisible will pose any problems?

I don't think so - it should be fine. The invisible flag only affects the Finder and Open/Save dialogues.

Oh yeah, thanks to Detrius for pointing out my error. His command has the / in front of developer - that's needed.