[rant] Upgrade to 9.2, any advice?
[rant] Upgrade to 9.2, any advice?
- Subject: [rant] Upgrade to 9.2, any advice?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 02:55:53 EST
I have not upgraded from 9.1 on my servers or work machine, and based on what
I have read and experienced, won't. The whole OSX transition is turning into
a huge multiheaded beast of a fiasco. Case in point - 4D is *removing* the
carbonization from WebSTAR because of the resulting stability/memory leak
problems.
<escalating rant>
*Every* version of Applescript since 1.3.7 (MacOS 8.6) had serious problems.
For my purposes (CGI scripting), 9.1 + 1.5.5 is the most stable and usable.
It apparently has an issue with reliably reading and writing records and
lists to files, but I have never used that feature.
In addition, these numerous issues with new versions of Applescript, rather
than easing the transition to OSX, are keeping me at 9.1, which means I will
have an even greater leap when I finally move to OSX (a barely usable system,
still, IMHO, since CGI scripting has, in effect, been killed off).
On a related note (Chris Nebel, please read) - AS 1.6 is probably better than
1.5.5 except for the fatal broken shell issue (AKA CGI startup bug, by which
you can't launch a script application and execute a handler by merely
invoking the handler). Maybe the Applescript team can release Applescript
1.6.1 which would fix that one bug? I've been unable to upgrade beyond 1.5.5
because new and fatal problems keep arising in the later versions of
Applescript.
All I have wanted for the past 6 years is a Mac that won't crash and that
behaves predictably. I hope Steve gets back to the OS priorities he had in
1998-1999: stability first, then speed, then features. If he had stuck with
this, we would have been spared Aqua and The Dock, and would have a super
powerful, fast, stable and robust Applescript in classic and OSX both.
</rant>
Jeff Baumann
email@hidden
www.linkedresources.com
In a message dated 1/14/02 11:33:57 PM, you wrote:
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Script wise, that is.
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I upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2.2 in one fell swoop and will be running Smile.
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I have heard of issues, care to share?