Whilst I understand that this a Developer Preview and hence support
will inevitably very limited, Apple can also be sure that the few
people that do install it are the most computer literate of their
users. I'm sure it is not beyond the wit of man (or woman in this
age of PC) to provide command line uninstallation instructions - even
if that includes editing plist files and shell scripts. To simply
say "it can't be uninstalled" really is not too helpful. Apple
promote the Mac as a great Java development platform, but its
releases of Java are so long behind those of Sun itself that some
developers may have no chance but to risk use of the Developer
Preview. In this case, it is only fair to provide some indication of
how to uninstall.
It's a shame Apple don't include the equivalent of Window's "System
Restore" in MacOS, allowing users to revert the system to any known
point in time. Microsoft have stolen enough ideas from Tiger for
Vista - perhaps Apple can steal this idea for Leopard?!
Paul
On Jan 22, 2006, at 1:32 AM, Russ Trotter wrote:
I'd like to use this discussion to throw out a few questions
regarding Apple's policy on un-installable preview releases for the
JDK.
Assertion: For that policy, I will *never* be installing a DP of
*any* Apple JDK because I need the java env to always work.
Questions:
* does the fact that I will never be installing a DP create a
chicken/egg situation where Apple won't finally come around to
making 1.5 an official platform default due to testing but people
like me not testing?
* why does Apple's bundling differ so radically from sun's dist.
format (basically everything under a JAVA_HOME) which lends itself
to one-off trying of any release version. I don't really accept
"end users need to be isolated from JDK versions" as a reason.
There's easy ways to maintain that facade without hamstringing
developers.
* Apple says "do not install on critical systems". I have one
Mac. I'd love to have more, but they cost money. Substantially
more money than the wintel boxen that are more typically "lying
around". Am I truly in the minority where I don't have spare
mac's for one-time DP installations?
any thoughts out there?
russ
Greg Guerin wrote:
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