In a previous post on deploying Xcode components, I showed how the iOS Simulators are defined in a metadata file used by Apple, called dvtdownloadableindex, which is a binary plist containing information about all the “Components” available in the Downloads preference area. What’s useful about this file is that it describes in a human-readable way [...]
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Xcode deployment: The dvtdownloadableindex and iOS Simulators/SDKs
November 19, 2012
Around the time of the release of OS X Mountain Lion, Xcode moved to a single drag ‘n drop .dmg model to simplify the user installation experience, and Apple was nice enough to make the Command Line tools a separate download. Unfortunately, this hasn’t simplified the process of mass deployment, and we now have more [...]