No way to change build configuration in scheme in a NON-PERMANENT way

Originator:m.hanauska
Number:rdar://9767181 Date Originated:13-Jul-2011
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:Developer Tools Product Version:4.1
Classification:UI/Usability Reproducible:Always
 
Xcode4 allows to select Build Configuration (e.g. debug, release, etc.) within Schemes separately for every Action e.g. for Run or for Test. This usually makes sense, because you'll have a default setup where you always want a certain style for a certain action. However, sometimes you want to Run or Test your app and not use a debug, but a release build. There is no way how you can tell Xcode to perform either action and use a different build style for it, but only do so once and *NOT* modify the scheme permanently beyond that point.

Sure, you could create a second scheme for that, but then there are two schemes you must keep in sync; this will only lead to issues in the long run. Especially if multiple users are working on the same project and the schemes are "shared".

And having to duplicate a scheme each time you want to run it a couple of times with a different configuration is not very user friendly.

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