Re: OS 9.2.2 - Apple a big dissepointment. - Applescript TOO difficult to use for good business ! ?
Re: OS 9.2.2 - Apple a big dissepointment. - Applescript TOO difficult to use for good business ! ?
- Subject: Re: OS 9.2.2 - Apple a big dissepointment. - Applescript TOO difficult to use for good business ! ?
- From: "Donald S. Hall" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 00:00:47 -0700
I have only had major trouble with AS 1.7 in OS 9.2.2. 1.7 in OS X 10.1
worked just fine (as does 1.8 in OS X 10.1.2), and has plenty of increased
functionality over AS in OS X 10.0.x. There must be something wrong in the
implementation of 1.7 in OS 9.2.2, which was I understand a fairly major
change. A double dot version change is no guarantee that the changes will be
benign!
I hope they manage to correct the problems that have crept in, but they have
limited resources, and there is still lots of work to do for OS X.
Don
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Well, I've always been speaking highly about the mac
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when I was around PC guys. But that has stopped completely.
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Microsoft's release of XP is a big positive supprise.
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Off course I have my MacOSX 10.1.2 to talk about (unix and all),
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but when it gets down to being a developer ... well ...
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it seems like Apple dosn't care about developers within
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proffesional companies.
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My company has been making a good business on building publishing
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solutions for Quark, InDesign and Framemaker.
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Me primary tool WAS the mac.
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The solutions have been build in FaceSpan and RealBasic, and
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AppleScript Studio LOOKED to become an interesting program.
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But not any longer.
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If applescript is going to be a major player for developers we
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simply CAN'T have situations like the "9.2.2 - bomb-raid"!
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It makes my company look like a fool, when customers suddenly
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have to hear me say: "It's the new 9.2.2, that make all these
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problems".
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And it is not very complex applications we are talking about.
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It's even the simple ones.
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Apple actually took a great and impressive step with the
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introduction of the unix system! I've already been building
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automisations that exploit the unix automatisions (cron-jobs
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written in perl!) together with applescript application.
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You can make some great applications where you use
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apache and XML to receive SOAP calles and then turn theres in
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to automasations of desktop applications !!!
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But all this wonderfull stuff collapses when you can't build
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applications, that are stable within "reasonable amount of
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OS versions" - YES I would expect small upgrades like 9.1.x ->
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9.2.1 -> 9.2.2 to work WITHOUT these problems!
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(A lot of my old Win95 programs STILL work in XP!)
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My company will start spending TOO much time on stabelising
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applications between these smaller OS upgrades.
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And the problem will presumably continue for AppleScript under OSX .....
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It is very easy for my company to abandom the Mac and continue
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our developments on the pc platform - especially since
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FrameMaker and InDesign runs OK on the PC (NOT Quark though).
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But that step would simply hurt my heart SO MUCH... especially
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with the promissing world of OSX!
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But what do YOU say? IS it possible to have a GOOD business
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based on developments on a mac / applescript???
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BIG praier to Apple: PLEASE help us promote the Mac as
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the best desktop development platform for grafical productions -
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DON'T MAKE SUCH BIG HICKUPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I love our mac's ... but not if I loose a lot of
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money (developertime) on hickups..
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Med Venlig Hilsen / With Kind Regards
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Sxren Rehni
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Donald S. Hall, Ph.D.
Apps & More Software Design, Inc.
http://www.theboss.net/appsmore
email@hidden