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> On 12 Jul 2015, at 21:48, Jake Petroules <jake.petrou...@petroules.com> wrote: > > Apple Developer Tools Team, > > I'm doing some work integrating Interface Builder tools like the asset > catalog compiler and XML Interface Builder document compiler into an external > build system. Part of the core way in which we track dependencies is by > knowing in advance which output files will be generated as a result of a > particular command execution. > > For the asset catalog compiler, there's already a helpful XML output with the > "com.apple.actool.compilation-results" key that lists the output files > generated by a particular execution. However, this requires us to effectively > run the same invocation twice: once to get the list of output files, and > again to do the actual compilation, which is redundant and wastes time due to > the unnecessary disk I/O. > > I would like to suggest adding a --dry-run option to actool that would run > the normal compilation process except that it doesn't actually write any of > the listed output files to disk (but still lists the files it *would* have > written in the output). This should be trivial to implement and would be a > huge help to us. It would be nice if ibtool could get the same treatment as > well (for compiling XIBs and Storyboards) -- and ibtool also needs a > "com.apple.ibtool.compilation-results" listing in its output. > > Thanks! > -- > Jake Petroules - jake.petroules at petroules.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/witness.of.teachtext%40gmx.net > > This email sent to witness.of.teacht...@gmx.net _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
