XCode 5.1: Garbage Collection Not Supported

[artwyman]

XCode 5.1 went live today, and it does away with support for garbage collection, which means the stable version of appledoc can't be built with XCode 5.1. The experimental branch uses ARC instead, but as far as I can tell it isn't complete enough to use (the Readme is out of date, but when I built it it's missing any arguments for specifying output, so I assume it's still incomplete). I tried running XCode's migration tool to convert to ARC, but there were too many issues for my level of familiarity with the code.

Any chance of getting a usable version of appledoc for XCode 5.1 relatively soon? Or is there already an option I'm missing? For now, I'm using a pre-built appledoc executable built using XCode 5.0, launched from within our normal build which uses XCode 5.1.

[tomaz]

Thanks for reporting, I'm aware of this, started migration myself once 5.1 hit dev preview, but then discarded it as I simply didn't have time to go through it. Experimental branch (which will become 3.0, really need to rename it :) is ARC based as you note, but it's not ready for release, it currently parses source code and there's embrio from which markdown processing will be born. I hope it can become usable enough soon, but it'll take couple months at best. Current binary should be usable till then though so you should not miss much...

[FlorianDenis]

Would you consider releasing an official installer with the binary, for those of us who weren't so lucky as to have a working binary pre Xcode 5.1 ?

[tomaz]

Yes, that's what I though would do until 3.0 is ready. Will update this issue.

[loretoparisi]

So we are going to wait the 3.0, thanks!

[artwyman]

Thanks, just wanted to make sure this was known.
For reference by others, it is possible to run multiple versions of XCode side by side. Just download the old version and re-name XCode.app before dragging into Applications, and you can switch between them using xcode-select from command-line. It's too awkward for me to have wanted to include it in our build system, but worked for letting me manually build appledoc without messing up my XCode 5.1 environment.

[hsousa]

Hi,

Yes, pleasae, an installer with the binary would be awesome... 👍

[orta]

We're thinking of doing some stuff with CocoaPods and appledoc, as part of CocoaDocs v2 to make it easy for everyone to document their libs, as brew is out of the window it'd definitely be a good idea to have an "official binary release" that we can work with until 3.0.

[tomaz]

Uploaded latest v2 binary release. It's not installer, but I think a developer should figure it out from install instructions on download page :)

[MaxGabriel]

What kind of stuff @orta

[orta]

Thanks @tomaz 👍

@MaxGabriel - https://github.com/CocoaPods/cocoapods-appledoc and the new CocoaDocs redesign will probably happen at the same time. Making it easy for anyone to generate their own mini CocoaDocs.