Xcode Beta Woes

So like most people who are on the ball, I downloaded the Xcode beta with the iPad SDK. Obviously this is what you should do right away if you're an iPhone developer because you should probably get at least vaguely familiar with the iPad and you might even want to port your software to it before the hardware is available.

That's all good, but it looks like there is at least one serious bug in the thing involving nib file loading. I had an application that kept crashing every time it tried to load a nib file. Normally this happens because some connection is pointing to a property that no longer exists or something, but in this case the thing was crashing even loading a brand new empty nib file, or a brand new nib file with one unchanged object.

I switched back to the release version of Xcode (3.2.1) and everything worked.

So it shouldn't come as a surprise, but there are still some serious issues with 3.2.2 that go beyond what I would expect even a beta to suffer from. I'd avoid using 3.2.2 for anything at all save for iPad tinkering.