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Multiple developers on a single Mac Pro


My development team of 5 people is about to start working on an already existing native iOS app. At the time being, we are all using Linux/Windows machines and we're going to have access to one Mac Pro which is one of those cylindrical machines with 6 cores and 32GBs of RAM. The requirement for us is to develop using Xcode or AppCode.

Is there a way for us to work remotely on that Mac without having to buy a Mac for every developer? Can we login on that machine with more than one user and run multiple instances of Xcode and iOS emulators at the same time?


Solution

  • Not really, remote access is still more or less the same as physical access and having 5 people work on it at the same time will be messy.

    Even if you managed to get 5 instances of Xcode running somehow, that machine would struggle, even a single instance can use up a lot of the machine's resources.