Trying to solve this problem last night, I came across this great script to automate the process. Works great, right out of the box.
If you want to integrate this with an xcodebuild, you’ll still need to build a small xcodeproj file. There’s a template for this and instructions here:
Building Makefile Projects With XCode
Joel Spolsky, of Joel on Software is one of my favorite writers in the software industry. He’s insightful, pithy, and practical. But sometimes he and I part ways, at least in practice, and “Evidence Based Scheduling” is one of those times.
The trouble with the “break it into tiny pieces” approach is that the number of pieces quickly explodes so large that the act of tracking them swamps the project. And now, rather than getting wildly behind schedule because you underestimated how long a particular piece will take, you’re behind schedule because you underestimated how many pieces there were. And now you have more project management overhead…. Read more…