On Dec 18, 2008, at 09:47, Andy Lee wrote:
* There should be an Xcode-wide default setting for the value that
is used for __MyCompanyName__.
* You should be able to tell what that default setting is by looking
in Xcode's preferences, because that's the first place you're going
to look -- not in the Xcode 3.1 release notes.
* It's fine to have "whatever is in Address Book" as a default.
* If "whatever is in Address Book" is the default, there should be a
button in Xcode that takes you to Address Book, or some such UI, so
you can conveniently edit the value.
* You should have the option to use something else as the default,
because you may want to identify with a different organization for
whatever purposes that Address Book uses that field for (what are
those purposes, anyway?) -- including not wanting an organization
name in Address Book at all.
* You should be able to specify a different organization, overriding
the default, on a per-project basis.
I seem to recall there are other placeholders that can be put into
project file templates, not just organization name. I suspect it
would not be appropriate to have these be fields in Address Book.
Therefore I think there should be a preference tab in Xcode
dedicated to these placeholders. This would make clear what the
complete list is and what reasonable default values are for each,
and it would make it convenient for developers to set their values.
This information should not be buried in oral tradition, and I'm
frankly surprised there's any debate about this. The fact that this
has been asked about time and time again should really be a glaring
clue that this functionality should be exposed in UI. A developer
shouldn't have to search list archives to find out that the
information is in a paragraph of the Xcode 3.1 release notes.
Amen.
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