> Le 5 mai 2016 à 19:09, Alex Zavatone <z...@mac.com> a écrit :
> 
> 
> On May 4, 2016, at 8:30 PM, Quincey Morris wrote:
> 
>> On May 4, 2016, at 17:06 , Roland King <r...@rols.org 
>> <mailto:r...@rols.org>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Don’t use the app store for Xcode.
>> 
>> I understand you’re going to be unforgiving after getting burned by the app 
>> store app, but I get Xcode that way pretty much all the time these days, 
>> without problems. The downsides to the store app:
>> 
>> -1. It’s a really slow, really bad app.
>> 
>> -2. It doesn’t reliably tell you when it’s downloading what you asked it to 
>> download. That leads to an evil cycle where you keep stopping an update that 
>> doesn’t seem to be progressing, thus preventing it from ever progressing to 
>> the end.
>> 
>> The upsides to the store app:
>> 
>> +1. It enables the download of delta updates. Xcode 7.3.1 was a <1 minute 
>> download with 7.3 installed.
>> 
>> +2. The store download comes pre-gatekeepered. This saves up to 20 minutes 
>> in installation time, vs the DMG download.
> 
> OK.  Fine points, for sure.  I'll give you that.
> 
> So, when using the App Store, (1) how do you save the installer if you need 
> to install Xcode on more than one Mac?
> 

FWIW, when I want to deploy Xcode on an other Mac, I just copy the Xcode.app 
from the application folder to the other machine.

> (2) How do you stop it when it's completed downloading, locate the installer 
> and copy the installer to your other 5 machines?
> 
> It's easy to do this when you download the file using a browser.  It's 
> another set of things to worry about when you are faced with this situation 
> on a regular basis and have to use the App Store and I don't know about you 
> guys, but I don't want another set of things to worry about.
> 
> So, aside from my harshing your mellow, are there solutions to my points 1 
> and 2?
> 
> And also, if someone is wacky enough to have set up OS X Server, can the 
> Xcode upgrade be handled through OS X Server?
> 
> Muchos thankos, sir.
> 
> 
> 
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