Support all previous Xcode beta versions of this major release

[czechboy0]

Currently only Xcode 7 beta 4 is shown (after all the release versions of Xcode 6). It'd be great if you could also allow downloading older beta versions (in this case 1 through 3).

If you look at the url from the developer portal: https://developer.apple.com/services-account/download?path=/Developer_Tools/Xcode_7_beta_4/Xcode_7_beta_4.dmg you can see that it can be easily deduced that Apple uses a deterministic naming scheme. When I tried changing it to https://developer.apple.com/services-account/download?path=/Developer_Tools/Xcode_7_beta_3/Xcode_7_beta_3.dmg, it downloaded just fine (also worked for 2).

So I guess my feature suggestion is to support even unlisted beta versions by assuming that the naming scheme stays the same. If you ping the "made up" URL of the earlier betas, you can tell whether there is a resource or not, so you could even run through them in xcode-install list.

[neonichu]

I'm not sure about fiddling with the URLs inside XcodeInstall, the scheme changes frequently, e.g. Xcode 6.4 has /services-account/download?path=/WWDC_2015/Xcode_6.4_beta_4/Xcode_6.4_beta_4.dmg and they also sometimes disappear.

I'd rather put that step into the hand of the user and offer to install from a manually provided URL, e.g.

$ xcode-install install https://developer.apple.com/services-account/download?path=/Developer_Tools/Xcode_7_beta_3/Xcode_7_beta_3.dmg

This makes it more obvious that it is on the user to check if that version is still around.

[czechboy0]

Close enough :)
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 9:26 AM Boris Bügling notifications@github.com
wrote:

I'm not sure about fiddling with the URLs inside XcodeInstall, the scheme
changes frequently, e.g. Xcode 6.4 has
/services-account/download?path=/WWDC_2015/Xcode_6.4_beta_4/Xcode_6.4_beta_4.dmg
and they also sometimes disappear.

I'd rather put that step into the hand of the user and offer to install
from a manually provided URL, e.g.

$ xcode-install install https://developer.apple.com/services-account/download?path=/Developer_Tools/Xcode_7_beta_3/Xcode_7_beta_3.dmg

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