Obtaining Apple’s Developer Tools
Apple ships Mac OS X on one CD-ROM, and provides a second CD-ROM that contains developer tools. The Mac OS X Developer CD-ROM provides everything needed to write Cocoa applications using Apple’s tools.
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The developer tools can also be downloaded from Apple’s site for free at http://developer.apple.com/tools/macosxtools.html.
Apple’s developer tools are high quality. They are competitive with similar tools from other vendors. The fact that Apple distributes the tools with Mac OS X at no extra cost is not an indication that the tools are not valuable. Quite the contrary, the tools are powerful and in some cases indispensable for Cocoa development. Prior to the release of Mac OS X, Apple’s tools had to be purchased ...
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