Re:Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS
by ricardobayes on Thursday February 09, 2023 @03:44AM
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Developer is a weird string choice though, why not Development or Code.
It would be like MS naming its product VS Coder (lol)
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It appears to be a relic from the NeXT days.
If you look at the video [1] you can see it installing developer tools into the NeXTDeveloper and NeXTLibrary folders. So it's quite possible Apple just did a find/replace and removed the prefix.
Earlier versions of Mac OS X would install the development tools in /Developer on the hard drive too.
Re:Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS
by eddieroger on Thursday February 09, 2023 @09:44AM
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Right - it was more like Utilities than Documents. A folder for a type of app that not every user needed, not for documented created for a purpose.
Compare: the Scheme language was supposed to be called Schemer, but filename length limitations back then prevailed.
As was Forth – it indended name was “Fourth”.
Re:Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS
by anon20230209 on Thursday February 09, 2023 @05:10AM
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Some older versions of Xcode installed themselves and SDKs and other developer tools into /Developer. All that stuff lives in /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer now.