This continues to be a major source of friction.
Once again all my versions of LiveCode seem to have been reset so that they
can't find a version of Xcode they like. (At any time I am probably switching
between (or have simultaneously open) four version of LC: LC 6.7.11; the
latest stable version of 8; the latest 8 RC or sometimes DP; the latest DP of
9. Admittedly I'm not building iOS apps from 6.7.11.)
I think that there are two main problems:
1) Because preferences are shared between versions of LiveCode. I believe it
is the case than when switching between versions of LiveCode, if the mobile
support preferences are opened in a version of LC which doesn't play nice with
the selected version of Xcode, that path is deleted; so that next time the
version of LC which was previously happy is opened, the path to Xcode is gone.
The behaviour may be a little more subtle than this, but I believe something
along these lines is correct.
2) Something somewhere along the line of building apps seems to have a
hardwired path to /Applications/Xcode.app; so that while I may be able to
maintain a set of different Xcodes in separate folders or separately named,
LiveCode won't entirely work this way.
So currently I have XCode 8.3.3 as the 'canonical' version, probably because I
was using LiveCode 9.0 DP-9. Now that I have updated to LC 9.0 DP-10 and LC
8.1.8 stable, nothing can build (except 8.1.6 stable - which unfortunately
doesn't like the widgets in my stack!).
3) A third problem: I now want to start using LC 8.1.8, the latest stable
version; what version of Xcode does it use on Mas OS 10.12? According to
https://livecode.com/resources/support/ask-a-question/ :
LiveCode 8.1.8 RC-2 – Xcode 7.2 -Mac OS 10.10 – iOS 9.2
LiveCode 8.1.8 RC-2 – Xcode 8.2 -Mac OS 10.11 – iOS 10.2
LiveCode 8.1.8 RC-2 – Xcode 9.1 -Mac OS 10.12.6+ – iOS 11.1
LiveCode 8.2.0 DP-1 – Xcode 7.2 -Mac OS 10.10 – iOS 9.2
LiveCode 8.2.0 DP-1 – Xcode 8.2 -Mac OS 10.11 – iOS 10.2
LiveCode 8.2.0 DP-1 – Xcode 8.3 -Mac OS 10.12 – iOS 10.3
Some things that would make this better:
1) When the mobile support preferences were opened, if there is a path to a
version of Xcode which this version of LC can't use, it would be better if it
were displayed - but in grey or red or similar to show it's not usable -
rather than being deleted, this would be better.
2) Ensure that iOS standalones can be built if there is a path to a valid
version of Xcode, regardless of that path.
3) Change the list on https://livecode.com/resources/support/ask-a-question/
to a table, with LiveCode versions on one axis, MacOS versions on the other,
and Xcode/iOS versions in each cell.
3b) Update the above to include the current stable 8.1.8!
I'm off for a stiff drink...
Ben
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