Re: Push for AppleScript in OS X
Re: Push for AppleScript in OS X
- Subject: Re: Push for AppleScript in OS X
- From: Phi Sanders <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 17:32:22 -0500
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The issue at hand is actually quite serious. While its true that the
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AppleScript language its self is well positioned in MacOS X, scriptability
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in MacOS X as a whole is in a terrible state. During Macworld it became
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very clear that with the initial release of MacOS X we are not going to
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enjoy anywhere near the level of scriptability in the core OS (Desktop,
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Dock, Preferences, Networking, Printing) that we enjoy today with MacOS 9.
Indeed. If you can't manage the system, then you're going to have
a hard time achieving much success with workflow automation.
~Phi
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Phi Sanders
"And now, back to your regularly scheduled reality."
On 2/2/01, Mark Alldritt {email@hidden} said the following :
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on 1/2/2001 11:27 AM, email@hidden at
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email@hidden wrote:
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>> I think it would be in our best interests if everyone sent their desire to
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>> have AppleScript in OS X.
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> The good news is that you're about one year too late, Jason. There has been
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> very well-publicized evidence for a long time now that AppleScript will be
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> alive and well in OS X. There have only been about 1000 references to it on
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> this very list so far, plus official announcements from Chris Nebel of the
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> AppleScript team here. You can begin to look forward to March 24 (or maybe
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> give it a little longer to be working smoothly).
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This issue occupied much of our time during a panel discussion I was
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involved with at Macworld.
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The issue at hand is actually quite serious. While its true that the
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AppleScript language its self is well positioned in MacOS X, scriptability
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in MacOS X as a whole is in a terrible state. During Macworld it became
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very clear that with the initial release of MacOS X we are not going to
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enjoy anywhere near the level of scriptability in the core OS (Desktop,
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Dock, Preferences, Networking, Printing) that we enjoy today with MacOS 9.
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It has taken several years for Sal and the crew to get MacOS 9 to the point
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it is now. My great fear is that its going to take 1-2 years to get all the
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infrastructure back under MacOS X.
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Additionally, all of Apple's recent consumer applications (iTumes, iMovie,
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Final Cut Pro, etc.) are *not* scriptable. I see this as a very bad
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precedent.
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So, to conclude, its not the language that's at risk, but support for
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scripting in the OS that's the problem. If scripting in MacOS X matters to
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you or your organization, you must make this clear in a respectful way to
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Apple. If we are not making our needs clear to Apple, they may choose not
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to do this work in favor of some other feature enhancement.
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Cheers
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-Mark
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