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XcodesOrg / xcodes

The best command-line tool to install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode.
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Customize Installation Path Format #197

Open aaronsky opened 2 years ago

aaronsky commented 2 years ago

Hey folks, thank you for everything you've done in making this and Xcodes.app the successes they are. They're really great tools and I appreciate the work you've done. 🙏🏼

I've got an enhancement request, possibly unreasonable, that would make xcodes fit better into my weird little workflow. Unlike many others, I don't like to rename Xcode.app from whatever name it's been extracted as. So an installation strategy where Xcode.app is renamed to /Applications/Xcode-13.3.1.app won't fly. What I do, which I've never seen anyone else do, is organize builds by their revision string, meaning Xcode 13.3.1 would be installed to /Applications/Xcode/13E500a/Xcode.app.

I won't pretend I have a great reason to do this, I'm just superstitious of renaming Xcode, and I often have a lot of Xcode versions installed. I can also imagine that there are others out there who would benefit from more flexibility in the way xcodes installs versions beyond this specific style, besides the included XCODES_DIRECTORY option. Does this seem like something that would align with the goals of the project?

kidbrax commented 1 year ago

it would be great to have something like an --output switch where we can specify what we want the resulting .app to be named

neoswallow commented 1 year ago

I second this option as Azure DevOps Pipelines and GitHub Actions macOS runners use Xcode_{version string}.app format. So in order to setup a self-hosted agent, resulting Xcode name needs to be renamed.

zoltan-magyar commented 6 months ago

I have have the guts to bring up my suggestion as well here, since I understand that it very well be out of scope for the project.

I generally don't have multiple Xcode installs (I know I know, that's the whole point.)

The reason I use xcodes is simply because it's still the best way to install Xcode, considering how terrible the AppStore is and what a chore it is to download the installer and check for updates otherwise.

Basically, what I would love to see is a "single" Xcode mode, where Xcode.app is the final name of the extracted application that I can update seamlessly with the CLI.

Like I said, I know this is very clearly not what the CLI is about, but considering the fact that there is really no tool that could do this, it would be a great addition in my opinion.

acevif commented 3 months ago

@neoswallow I encountered the same issue.

Creating a symlink on the self-hosted runner using the following command worked for me:

ln -s /Applications/Xcode-15.4.0.app/ /Applications/Xcode_15.4.app

I hope this helps!