neonichu/chswift

Improve README with information on how to have multiple Swift versions

dmyers opened this issue · 2 comments

dmyers commented

How do you have Swift 1.1 and 1.2 installed? I upgraded Xcode and when I run chswift all I have is 1.2.

Would you just download the non Mac App Store version from the Apple Developer site?

Would it be good to add instructions to the readme?

neonichu commented

The best way to do this is to use https://github.com/neonichu/xcode-install to install multiple versions of Xcode. Using the Mac App Store will always overwrite your current Xcode.

$ [sudo] gem install xcode-install
$ xcode-install install 6.2
$ xcode-install install 6.3.2
$ xcode-install install '7 beta'

should give you 1.1, 1.2 and 2.0 via chswift.

I'm short on time right now, so would really appreciate a PR which adds instructions to the README.

dmyers commented

Thanks @neonichu. I had no idea that existed. I really like that solution the best. I ended up manually downloading another Xcode version and got it working with chswift, but I will be using that from now on.

I'm not sure if this project's readme needs to include how to use xcode-install as much as a general notice on how to manage them and a link off to that project. It's up to you, but I made a small PR if you think it's a good starting point.

Thank you for your time and explaining.