Re: managing Scripting Additions
Re: managing Scripting Additions
- Subject: Re: managing Scripting Additions
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 19:01:11 -0800
At 12:21 -0500 3/6/2002, Wayne Clodfelter wrote:
>
What constitutes good management of Scripting Additions? Thanks.
I was a collector early on. Then I realized I had no idea whether a script
I wrote would run on a freshly-installed System (later called Mac OS).
Apple's early packaging of their "official" set in individual files or
files with small groups of related Additions didn't help (Standard
Additions did). So I stopped collecting, keeping only a few. And stopped
writing them.
I tend to manage them by color coding them (which I started doing wrong, by
color-coding Apple's, which for reasons of updating should be left alone).
[I also have a script in my Folders folder in the Apple menu which opens
Scripting Additions and Scripting Additions (disabled) for me.] And I keep
the active set very small (often, it is Standard Additions and Jon's
Commands on Mac OS 9, and Standard Additions plus Mark's XML family (sadly
unused here for lack of time) on Mac OS X).
YMMV
There are Additions from 1993 which are still running fine today (on Mac OS
9). Others have not weathered quite as well. And few have yet crossed the
Great Divide to Mac OS X, which is not surprising, IMHO (the intersection of
authors-who-have-not-lost-interest-in-their-additions and
authors-who-have-Mac-OS-X-in-regular-use and
authors-who-have-time
is probably rather small). And then there are additions whose authors are
in that intersection but whose additions do things which can be done
another way in Mac OS X, which reduces the incentive.
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA
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