Re: AFP Programming Question
Re: AFP Programming Question
- Subject: Re: AFP Programming Question
- From: Nathan Duran <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:02:31 -0700
On Apr 21, 2008, at 1:48 AM, Quinn wrote:
In an ideal world, the docs would be perfect and the source wouldn't
be necessary. This is not an ideal world. I regularly answer
questions for folks who are creating AFP compatible products and
need to clarify various issues. Those clarifications get folded
into the AFP documentation, but that can take quite some time.
I was foolishly speaking out of the assumption that AFP support would
have been deemed worthy of some attention considering how much of the
Mac's advertised ease of use hinges upon its reliability, but now that
I've taken some time to consider the official client's recent
performance and look at the dates in the footers, you are correct;
such idealism has no place in the new order and I cannot thank DTS
enough for providing me with so many opportunities to learn this fact.
So would you finger the non-ideal documentation or the non-ideal
testing matrices for the fact that 10.5's shipping AFP client is
itself no longer a truly AFP compatible product? This list's 4th
bullet in particular has sent more people back to 10.4 than I can keep
track of, and I never quite know who to pass the blame on to when I
have to spend hours downgrading clients au gratis because my Leopard
recommendation ground their business to a screeching halt.
http://www.grouplogic.com/knowledge/index.cfm/fuseaction/view_Info/docID/289
Is the documentation so stale or the maintainers so detached and
unreachable that even Apple engineers are filing DTS tickets to get
answers? I thought that only happened with QuickTime, but things can
always get worse I suppose.
At any rate, I take it back: The open source projects are probably
better maintained than the official ones, and as an added bonus, the
maintainers probably won't charge you a couple hundred a pop to answer
questions about whatever they forgot to put in the documentation over
the past two years.
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