Re: [rant] Upgrade to 9.2, any advice?
Re: [rant] Upgrade to 9.2, any advice?
- Subject: Re: [rant] Upgrade to 9.2, any advice?
- From: Helmut Fuchs <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:13:28 +0100
At 0:43 Uhr -0800 15.01.2002, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
On 1/14/02 11:55 PM, "email@hidden" <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
Well Paul, Jeff said "in classic and OSX both". And that's a goal
that Apple clearly misses by lightyears. And I would like to second
Jeff on each of the points he makes.
At 0:43 Uhr -0800 15.01.2002, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
It's not unusual to get bugs when new features are added to any application.
While that's true, I still find it unacceptable that quite a few
things broke, which could have been easily detected with proper QA. A
few easy tests with the three most popular AppleScript-Editors on
9.2.2 could have prevented this catastrophe from happening.
And try to give the advice "don't upgrade" to clients... like: "Um.
Apple broke something in the newest version of classic MacOS. They
don't admit it and never will. But still - don't install it". Client
thinks: "Well, this guy is simple to stupid to keep up with
technology. Let's look for somebody else." Sys admin of client
thinks: "Hey cool. There's a new version of MacOS. Let's install it!"
And BTW the "new feature bugs" have cost me (and I guess most of us)
quite I lot of time and effort. Especially the free-lancers among us
face the huge problem of explaining to clients why scripts simply
don't work any more, and why they have to pay again to fix them.
QA for AppleScript and AppleScript support in the MacOS components
seems to be completely non-existent (at least for classic, can't say
much about X).
I wish that Apple finally put a public bug-list in place. Like Be
had. This was clearly a big help for developers, as the questions "is
this a (known) bug or feature? and will it be resolved?" were easily
answered without asking the list-oracle. I demand Glasnost at Apple!!
Why is Apple so uninterested in caring for a great tool like
AppleScript? Why is it supported so half-heartedly? When will the
documentation be updated? I've heard often enough that's going to
happen with OS X - but when? OS X.X?
Regards,
Helmut
P.S. While I like some of OS X, I still can't use it for more than
half an hour, because the visual overload causes me headaches. See,
there ARE people who ARE doing a lot of work with their computers
which have vision disabilites. I'm wearing "brick glasses" and this
stupid thing with these horizontal lines as a backdrop and those
darned transparent menus drive me crazy. Unless one can't legally
switch off this "eye candy" that makes (at least me) nauseous OS X is
NOT and I repeat NOT a professional alternative.
And Apple doesn't even respond to letters and eMails in which I tried
to bring this to attention....