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: JollyRoger <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:18:08 -0600
On 1/15/2002 5:13 AM, "Helmut Fuchs" <email@hidden> wrote:
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At 0:43 Uhr -0800 15.01.2002, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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> It's not unusual to get bugs when new features are added to any application.
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While that's true, I still find it unacceptable that quite a few
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things broke, which could have been easily detected with proper QA. A
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few easy tests with the three most popular AppleScript-Editors on
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9.2.2 could have prevented this catastrophe from happening.
It may not be unusual to get bugs when new features are added; but what I
and other software developers find unacceptable is when bugs are introduced
that are so obvious that simple QA procedures would have caught them! It's
like Apple just did away with QA!
I'd like someone at Apple to explain to me why I should invest my time
attempting to create quality scripts when the AppleScript software itself
isn't quality tested?!
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And try to give the advice "don't upgrade" to clients... like: "Um.
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Apple broke something in the newest version of classic MacOS. They
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don't admit it and never will. But still - don't install it". Client
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thinks: "Well, this guy is simple to stupid to keep up with
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technology. Let's look for somebody else." Sys admin of client
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thinks: "Hey cool. There's a new version of MacOS. Let's install it!"
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And BTW the "new feature bugs" have cost me (and I guess most of us)
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quite I lot of time and effort. Especially the free-lancers among us
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face the huge problem of explaining to clients why scripts simply
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don't work any more, and why they have to pay again to fix them.
I've had exactly the same experience more than once since 8.6 due to bugs
and incompatibilities in newer AppleScript releases. It is US, the
AppleScript users/developers, who look stupid to our customers when Apple
makes these goof-ups. And I think we are perfectly right to be aggravated
with Apple for letting this happen time and time again.
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QA for AppleScript and AppleScript support in the MacOS components
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seems to be completely non-existent (at least for classic, can't say
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much about X).
I can tell you from my limited experience with X that QA seems to be
nonexistent in X as well.
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I wish that Apple finally put a public bug-list in place. Like Be
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had. This was clearly a big help for developers, as the questions "is
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this a (known) bug or feature? and will it be resolved?" were easily
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answered without asking the list-oracle. I demand Glasnost at Apple!!
I'd be happy with Apple just QA-ing AppleScript.
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Why is Apple so uninterested in caring for a great tool like
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AppleScript? Why is it supported so half-heartedly? When will the
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documentation be updated? I've heard often enough that's going to
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happen with OS X - but when? OS X.X?
<hint>
It's not just AppleScript that is experiencing these quality issues - it's
the entire OS and even other products such as iPod. The real problem is
deeper than that.
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P.S. While I like some of OS X, I still can't use it for more than
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half an hour, because the visual overload causes me headaches.
Praise the lord, I'm not the only one!!!
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See, there ARE people who ARE doing a lot of work with their computers
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which have vision disabilities. I'm wearing "brick glasses" and this
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stupid thing with these horizontal lines as a backdrop and those
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darned transparent menus drive me crazy. Unless one can't legally
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switch off this "eye candy" that makes (at least me) nauseous OS X is
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NOT and I repeat NOT a professional alternative.
Same here. Not only that, but there are still chunks of functionality
missing from X that are such a large part of my daily work that I cannot do
without them. The X Finder is so useless compared to Mac OS Finder it's not
funny. No labels, no pop-up folders, the horrid
replace-multiple-files-dialog-nightmare, sluggish operation, etc. the list
goes on and on. If Apple expects professionals to use X, then they'd better
wake up and give professionals the tools they rely on.
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And Apple doesn't even respond to letters and eMails in which I tried
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to bring this to attention....
Same here... I feel your pain...