Open Radar

 
Summary:
The Xcode documentation download system is broken.

Sometimes, if the stars align just right, it works. But just as often it doesn't.

Sometimes it just hangs, not progressing in any way and forcing at least one reboot before it might start working again. (Which includes force-quitting Xcode which refuses to pause/abort documentation downloads).

At other times it spews out some cryptic error messages.

The status indicators are not particularly accurate or useful even when they work, which mostly they don't. Often they don't seem to refresh and while pressing 'Check and Install Now' (while downloads are in progress) seems to produce some reaction, mostly it just seems to shuffle the status indicators.

If the most useful indicator of progress is watching installd CPU usage you're not in a good place.

Also, without release notes it can sometimes be hard to tell if there are actually new docsets or if Xcode is just trolling me.

This has been the case as long as I can remember since Xcode included optional documentation downloads so it isn't particularly version specific. Although the particular brokenness seems to wary from time to time but that's probably just the moon phases.


So please fix this at some point.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use Xcode to download docsets
2. goto 1

Expected Results:
It just works.

I'll even settle for Mac App Store installing-level and talk about a low bar.

Actual Results:
A lovecraftian story involving you, a quaint village in Docsetshire and Xcodethulhu.

Version:
Xcode: 7 & 7.1b1
OS X: El Capitan GM
Moon Pase: Waxing Crescent

Notes:
My apologies if you have to read this and my sympathies if you are dealing with the same issues. ;-)