AppleInsider StaffIn addition to the new pre-release distributions of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Client and Server install this past week, Apple is reported to have seeded a new developer preview of its Xcode integrated development environment.
Indexing, searching, and snapshots should be working properly, people familiar with the software say, while the text editor has had its notification messages revamped. A new Extract Function/Method transformation as well as improved source code managers and refined searching are also part of the fresh Xcode release.
Few show-stopping hiccups are part of the software, testers explain. Key bugs primarily involve memory use, imperfect DTrace functionality on PowerPC Macs, and running the open-source development tool Eclipse.
People familiar with the new development environment have told AppleInsider that Apple is chiefly interested in reports of slowdowns or temporary freezes rather than trouble with particular features.
The 9A343 build of Xcode lends some previously absent optimism to forecasts for Leopard's release, which is currently on track for late spring.
Wesley Hilliard
William Gallagher
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Woah, wait.
Eclipse is somehow being integrated with Xcode?? Or, are they saying that the JVM version shipping with Xcode is causing Eclipse fits?
Eclipse contained two bugs that prevent it from running under 10.5. These bugs are already fixed in the nightly builds of Eclipse.
Gerd
I just hope Apple releases a really solid build with Leopard. I hope all the waiting this winter and spring pays off for us, the end-user.
Unless X Code development was lagging the client and server OS development side, which it hasn'r seemed to be doing, I don't see how this development can speed up the release of the OS's.
Unless X Code development was lagging the client and server OS development side, which it hasn'r seemed to be doing, I don't see how this development can speed up the release of the OS's.
With more of the legacy APIs being replaced with Cocoa the OS will be leveraging ObjC more and with the publically listed features of ObjC 2.0 and some of the new Frameworks you can definitely expect the release date of Leopard to be dependent upon the status of these frameworks and ObjC 2.0 passing all internal QA test cases.