Debugging an Installer Plugin

Step 1 : Configure your Xcode project

1	Open your plugin project in Xcode.
2	Choose Project > New Executable…
3	Click Choose.
4	Select Installer.app. You can find Installer.app in /System/Library/CoreServices on Mac OS X 10.5 (or later) and in /Applications/Utilities on earlier versions.
5	Click Finish.
6	Choose Project > Set Active Build configuration > Debug.
7	Choose Build > Build.

Step 2 : Debug

1	Add breakpoints in Xcode
2	Copy your plugin into the Plugins folder.
3	Choose Debug > Debug Executable in Xcode.
4	Open your package with Installer.app.

Product->Scheme->Edit scheme -> 

This will launch below screen

How to identify mac os Eclipse is 32 bit or 64 bit ?

These are the flags you can look at to identify whether your Mac Eclipse is 32 bit or 64 bit ?

Navigate to this menu:
Eclipse ->About Eclipse -> Click on "Installation Details" -> Click on "Configuration" tab->

And look for these parameters:

macosx
-ws
cocoa
-arch
x86_64

Here x86_64 represents 64 bit eclipse.

For 32 bit eclipse, you will find only x86. 

macosx
-ws
cocoa
-arch
x86


There are few more parameters that also represent the same.
org.osgi.framework.processor=x86-64
osgi.arch=x86_64

Upgrade node.js via npm

sudo npm cache clean -f

sudo npm install -g n

sudo n stable

This will install the latest stable version.

If you want to install a specific version.

sudo npm n 0.10.34

This will install 0.10.34 version.

Just to cross check, use below command. This will print the installed version.

node -v

How to remove specific npm package from windows system

> npm rm -g  <packagename>

Try even this.
>npm uninstall <packagename>

Breakpoints are not working with Xcode 6

There are many reasons for this.

Please check this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/64790/why-arent-my-breakpoints-working

In my case what worked for me is:
Click on the Xcode project-> Build Settings ->Build Options -> set "Debug Information Format" as "DWARF with dSYM File".

This is in Xcode 6.1

Removing node.js and npm from mac os x

1. Go to /usr/local/lib and delete any node and node_modules
2. Go to /usr/local/include and delete any node and node_modules directory
3. check your Home directory for any local or lib or include folders, and delete any node or node_modules from there
4. Go to /usr/local/bin and delete any node and npm executable.
5. If you have installed in any other custom directory, please remove that as well.

Use below command to remove recursively.

>sudo rm -rf node

>sudo rm -rf node_modules

rm -rf /usr/local/{lib/node{,/.npm,_modules},bin,share/man}/{npm*,node*,man1/node*}

Pulling your co-worker forked remote branch

> git remote add coworker https://github.com/coworker/studiorepo.git
> git fetch coworker
> git checkout --track coworker/foo

This will setup a local branch foo, tracking the remote branch coworker/foo. So when your coworker has made some changes, you can easily pull them.


> git pull

> git checkout foo

This will pull the latest changes. This is especially required when you wanted to pull the code and review it directly without really disturbing own repo. This will avoid setting up one more repository as well.