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Expand .xip on the destination volume #178
Description
After PR #126, xcode install supports a custom path for Xcode's installation, but this path isn't directly used for the .xip expansion, using instead the same directory where it’s downloaded (~/Library/Application Support/com.robotsandpencils.xcodes/)1. If this custom installation path is to a different volume than the .xip, this means that:
- Xcode.app must be first expanded and then moved to another volume, a relatively slow operation given its massive size.
- This installation requires double the free space than on a same-volume installation, because Xcode is first copied to the destination volume and only when it has finished it’s deleted from the original volume.
So I think it makes sense to expand the .xip directly on the final volume where Xcode will be installed (probably on the /.TemporaryItems folder).
Would you accept a pull request for this? Thank you!
Footnotes
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I assume this is done to avoid having a partial Xcode installation on the destination folder, which sounds reasonable to me. ↩
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MattKiazyk commentedon Jan 13, 2022
@juanjonol absolutely accept a PR for this.
Did something similar with Xcode.app - if you could follow the similar pattern that would be 💯
https://github.com/RobotsAndPencils/XcodesApp/pull/155/files
Moved XIP expansion to a temporal directory
Moved XIP expansion to a temporal directory
juanjonol commentedon Sep 21, 2022
Sorry to bother you @MattKiazyk, but the PR #179 that closes this has been ready for months. It says that some changes are required, but I made those changes a long time ago. Maybe you've missed this PR because it still says that there're changes requested?
Moved XIP expansion to a temporal directory
Moved XIP expansion to a temporal directory
Frizlab commentedon Sep 28, 2026
Oh this is ~4yo. I’m bumping, in the hope that it’ll be caught as I have the same issue.