Detailed Version Historie for AS 1.5.5
Detailed Version Historie for AS 1.5.5
- Subject: Detailed Version Historie for AS 1.5.5
- From: cris <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 19:30:48 +0100
Again, i'd like to vote for an detailed list of changes in AppleScript.
I found out that some commands behaves different in AS 1.5.5. (what a
surprise). For example:
-- name of disk 1 whose name contains "foo") --
returns now "" instead of an error.
Nothing bad about, but of course the death for some scripts if they run
unchanged. The problem is that i cannot test the whole code of all scripts
under all conditions.
Therefore, a detailed list about _all_ changes would save much time and
trouble!
I know that this is also a marketing decision for Apple (what from the
problems can we show without ruin the image...), but i think most of the AS
developers are smart enough to know that every software of that complexity
level has dozens of bugs. I can live with bugs - as long as i know there is
one so i can make a workaround.
A well known example is the 'entire contents of' command. It is just not
usable exept for generating lottery numbers. :-)
I wonder how many people have wasted hours and hours to came to a conclusion
which could be written in the AS-historie: entire contents does not work
reliable, a bug fix is not expected for OS 9.x but for OS X.
And i don't want to know how many people even use it because they didn't
notice the errors while developing. And imaging what this means for a
production environment...!
AS is used often in professional environments, so i think Apple could behave
a bit more 'professional' on this (hey, Chris Nebel does!). For all the
people who are implementing this technology into those environments, it
would be so helpful if they have a detailed list of changes. Having this not
will also lead to the fact that people will stay much longer on their old
configurations because they have no idea what they have to expect from an
update (never change a running system). And to find out all possible changes
with no starting point and no overview is often just impossible.
I don't think such a detailed historie must be part of the standard
installation, or be the first page on the web. But their should be a way to
get it, maybe only on request or after answering some IQ related questions.
;)
I wonder what other people think about and how they handle it.
And maybe Chris Nebel or Chris Espinosa can comment on this!?
Greetings
cris
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