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Open older Xcode versions on newer macOS versions

Open aleixjf opened this issue 11 months ago • 0 comments

Tell us how we can improve Xcodes It would be cool to be able to open older Xcode versions on newer macOS versions directly from the Xcodes app.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Inability to open older Xcode versions on newer macOS versions with the "Open" button. image

What would you like to see? How would you like it to work? For each version (X.Y.Z):

If the app is "unsupported" (ex: running macOS Sequoia (15.1) but you want to run Xcode 15.4.0), a button to run the following command: open /Applications/Xcode-15.y.z.app/Contents/macOS/Xcode (This would allow users to test the app without modifying it on their current macOS version).

Another button to overwrite the CFBundleVersion in Info.plist with the one of the current macOS build version (sw_vers -buildVersion): write /Applications/Xcode-15.y.z.app/Contents/Info.plist CFBundleVersion -string 23051

(The helper app will need to have the Application management setting enabled to run the above command, but it is already needed to perform other tasks so... it shouldn't be a big deal)

aleixjf avatar Nov 26 '24 09:11 aleixjf