RE: [OT was rant] Upgrade to 9.2, any advice?
RE: [OT was rant] Upgrade to 9.2, any advice?
- Subject: RE: [OT was rant] Upgrade to 9.2, any advice?
- From: Joe Kelly <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 11:17:55 -0800
JWBauman hath written:
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The whole OSX transition
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is turning into
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a huge multiheaded beast of a fiasco.
True, but given the enormous task at hand, Apple engineers have done amazing
work keeping the damage to a "minimum". I think that OS X and its transition
technologies such as Carbon are feats on par with the 68k->ppc transition.
And of course its frustrating for engineers, but that's the nature of the
job. And believe me, there are _other_ operating systems out there (I won't
name names), in which just managing the header files for all 20 different OS
flavors becomes a full time proposition.
If there WERE a rant to be found in all this, it's that it seems that Apple
has given up supporting AppleScript (imho one of the coolest and most subtle
technologies) for OS 9.x, outside of cursory maintanence.
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In addition, these numerous issues with new versions of
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Applescript, rather
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than easing the transition to OSX, are keeping me at 9.1,
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which means I will
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have an even greater leap when I finally move to OSX (a
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barely usable system,
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still, IMHO, since CGI scripting has, in effect, been killed off).
Well, you could always turn on your Apache web server. I'm sure there must
be a way to incorporate OSA scripts in Apache via cgi. If not, someone could
write an Apache module to do just that -- I don't think it would be that
hard. Or re-write your cgi scripts in C or perl; I've been told they are
faster and safer than AppleScript anyway.
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All I have wanted for the past 6 years is a Mac that won't
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crash and that
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behaves predictably.
Well, I can't quite vouch for the latter, but I know its getting there. But
I have yet to have OS X itself crash on me -- I've had apps galore blow up
and spew and die, but they've never affected any other open applications.
my 2 cents cast into the sea
jk