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Re:What Is Nix? by lilyball on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @11:24PM (#23254530)
By this do you mean developers doing local builds still run their builds at the command-line via nix-shell and don’t ever build from Xcode directly? That sounds very awkward.
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Re:What Is Nix? by austinl on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:12AM (#23255029)
Not at all — you can control what commands are actually executed when developers hit the play button or do ⌘+B/⌘+R in Xcode. Xcode is fundamentally just an IDE, even though we forget that sometimes since it's traditionally coupled so tightly with xcodebuild.
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Re:What Is Nix? by lilyball on Thursday May 21, 2020 @07:45PM (#23266999)
Ok so developers would normally just have an external build target selected as the active target? I assume this means you lose all of Xcode's scheme editor capabilities though.
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