{"id":13944,"date":"2016-03-22T17:08:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T21:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13944"},"modified":"2016-03-22T17:09:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T21:09:39","slug":"xcode-upgrades-lessons-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/22\/xcode-upgrades-lessons-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"Xcode Upgrades: Lessons Learned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericasadun.com\/2016\/03\/22\/xcode-upgrades-lessons-learned\/\">Erica Sadun<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/ericasadun.com\/2016\/03\/22\/xcode-upgrades-lessons-learned\/\">\n<p>I spent roughly 8 hours all told downloading, installing, and updating Xcode, much of which could have been bypassed by following two simple rules:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Never update Xcode from the Mac App Store<\/li>\n<li>Wait until Apple posts the upload on <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/downloads\/\">developer.apple.com\/downloads<\/a> and then update from there.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Under such circumstances, you&rsquo;ll <em>always<\/em> be better off downloading the bossy full-figured 5GB dmg than upgrading a model-thin Chanel-wearing 2.6GB differential, especially when servers are mocking you with NananaNAN completion estimates.<\/p>\n<p>This is why you should always wait for a DMG. No matter how long it takes to appear on the developer site. No matter how slow the download ends up being. The advantages of downloading a DMG are numerous[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Seconded. I have nearly always regretted updating Xcode via the Mac App Store. And you&rsquo;ll probably want the .dmg file to save a copy of that Xcode version, anyway. (I <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/16\/more-mac-app-store-certificate-problems\/\">wouldn&rsquo;t count on<\/a> an archived copy from the Mac App Store to keep working.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erica Sadun: I spent roughly 8 hours all told downloading, installing, and updating Xcode, much of which could have been bypassed by following two simple rules: Never update Xcode from the Mac App Store Wait until Apple posts the upload on developer.apple.com\/downloads and then update from there. [&#8230;] Under such circumstances, you&rsquo;ll always be better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1143,131,30,39,1199,71,226],"class_list":["post-13944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-software-quality","tag-bug","tag-mac","tag-macappstore","tag-mac-os-x-10-11","tag-programming","tag-xcode"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13946,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13944\/revisions\/13946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}