Yosemite, XCode 6.1?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 18, 2014, at 11:50 PM, Ned Deily wrote:

> In article <F763BD5F-40F8-4B30-9A3A-2D7628A09687 at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>,
> Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Its quite simple, you need the OSX 10.10 SDK, which is only available in 
>> Xcode 6.1, which for whatever reason is not released yet. You need to wait 
>> for it....
> 
> The reason, I think, is that Xcode 6.0.x was released to support iOS 8 
> when iOS 8 was released so it does not include an OS X 10.10 SDK since 
> 10.10 wasn't released at that point yet.  Xcode 6.1 will support iOS 8.1 
> which apparently is anticipated to release on Monday 10/20 US time so I 
> would expect to see Xcode 6.1 released via the Mac App Store then as 
> well.
> 
> Apparently, Apple decided (somewhat understandably) that it wasn't worth 
> the effort to rev bump Xcode 6.0.x just to include a 10.10 SDK just for 
> the four days between the release of 10.10 and the release of 8.1 and 
> they didn't want to publicly pre-release an 8.1 SDK.  Thus we're in this 
> weird limbo state - unless you are a member of one of the (paid) Apple 
> Developer programs that give non-disclosure access to pre-releases.  Why 
> Apple chose to not release 10.10 and 8.1 simultaneously may never be 
> known but it could just be they didn't want to overload the Interwebz 
> and/or their support organizations.

From archive.org, if you want to try Xcode 6.1 GM 2, try:

https://idmsa.apple.com/IDMSWebAuth/login?&appIdKey=891bd3417a7776362562d2197f89480a8547b108fd934911bcbea0110d07f757&path=%2F%2Fdevcenter%2Fdownload.action%3Fpath%3D%2FDeveloper_Tools%2Fxcode_6.1_gm_seed_2_ofnue4%2Fxcode_6.1_gm_seed_2.dmg