[Eug Wanker]

Apple seeds Xcode 1.5 beta

In release notes, Apple said that Xcode 1.5 will include updates to user interface, inspectors, building, code sense, CodeWarrior project importing, debugging, documentation, file editing, and ource code management.

[gorickey]

Yummy.

[mitchell_pgh]

Mac nerds everywhere rejoice...

[hmurchison2001]

I say Xcode 1.5 final is delivered shortly after WWDC. At WWDC Apple gives a small roadmap of what to expect in Xcode 2.0

I also liked seeing that WWDC has a session on Eclipse on OSX. I'll be getting familiar with that in this next year.

Looking forward to any other pleasant programming suprises.

[juanvaldes]

damn. I finally broke down and got 1.2? 1.3? whatever the latest version is the other day. REALLY hope they offer a single file download instead of the stupid 21 disk image parts.

[maxintosh]

Originally posted by juanvaldes:
damn. I finally broke down and got 1.2? 1.3? whatever the latest version is the other day. REALLY hope they offer a single file download instead of the stupid 21 disk image parts.

Why oh why do they insist on doing that? It's infuriating.

[Ghoser777]

Originally posted by maxintosh:
Why oh why do they insist on doing that? It's infuriating.

So you can download them one at a time and not worry about having a corrupt 300 megabyte partial file. This is especially helpful for people on slow connections or have networks whose connections drop from time to time (like on a wireless connection)

Matt Fahrenbacher

[mitchell_pgh]

Originally posted by Ghoser777:
So you can download them one at a time and not worry about having a corrupt 300 megabyte partial file. This is especially helpful for people on slow connections or have networks whose connections drop from time to time (like on a wireless connection)

Matt Fahrenbacher

I guess it's cool for dial up, but everyone on broadband just wants one nice big file.
With safari, this shouldn't be an issue (as you can stop a download and restart).

[Angus_D]

Yeah, but a lot of people suck can't figure out resume, not to mention the imercury servers can't do resume. How is it a problem, though? If you use the Finder, just create a multiple selection. Or use Transmit. Or ftp in the commandline. Or something.

[Art Vandelay]

I'm not sure what the problem is. Just select all the files and drag them to your desktop or wherever. Copying one large file or 20 segments consecutively is essentially the same.

[Rickster]

Here's my trick for no-fuss downloading of multi-segment ADC files (you'll need GNU wget if you don't already have it installed):
1. Go to the Member Site in a web browser that can handle FTP internally (not Safari).
2. Click the "Segments" button for the download you want, then copy the URL of the FTP directory you get sent to.
3. Enter the following in Terminal:

Code:
% mkdir download
% cd download
% wget -r -t 0 -nc -nd <paste url>

4. Open up a few more terminal windows and repeat the last couple of lines in each.

This gets multiple parallel fetches going, so you can be grabbing a few segments at once to maximize your bandwidth (in my experience, this results in a faster overall download than getting them one at at time). The -nc argument ensures that the multiple wget clients will each download separate segments (if one of them has already started downloading a segment, the others will move on to the next). And the -t 0 will have each client keep trying forever until they establish a connection, which is good when the ADC download sites are busy.

[mitchell_pgh]

You can do the exact same thing with Deepvacuum

[philzilla]

if they're hell bent on segments, they should offer both: segments and a full image. i just use Transmit and drag the damn things.

[Art Vandelay]

Originally posted by philzilla:
if they're hell bent on segments, they should offer both: segments and a full image. i just use Transmit and drag the damn things.

They offered the early Panther builds as single image files and it brought the imercury servers to their knees each time a new build was seeded. They quickly switched back to segments and the servers held up with each new seed.

[Angus_D]

So actually what should happen is Apple should fix their distribution network (especially the Europe and Asia Pacific mirrors). Or they spend a bit of time working on a modified BitTorrent clone, like what Blizzard is using for the WoW betas.

[philzilla]

Originally posted by Angus_D:
So actually what should happen is Apple should fix their distribution network (especially the Europe and Asia Pacific mirrors). Or they spend a bit of time working on a modified BitTorrent clone, like what Blizzard is using for the WoW betas.

yeah, i always use the US servers. forget the Europe one. it's almost quicker to wait for the final build. i like that BT idea though.