Re: OSAX on X
Re: OSAX on X
- Subject: Re: OSAX on X
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 23:56:36 +0100
garrett wrote:
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Is it me or is there like this unmentionable black hole where OSAX's use to
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be... What are there like maybe 8 or 10 on X? What's going on with this
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functionality? Any one have a clue as to why more developers haven't
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implimented X versions of their OSAX's?
<shrug> Waiting for OS X to settle down? Difficulty/time/expense of
porting?Lack of user support? Not enough personal/financial reward? Other
priorities: jobs, families, etc? Or even just plain not interested?
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SO much has been crippled as a
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result...
I dunno. I realised a year ago that an overdependence on osaxen would lead
to trouble sooner or later as things started heading Xwards. So I started
weaning myself off osaxen and onto vanilla libraries wherever possible.
While there's quite a lot things that you just can't do from vanilla AS at
all, it's also surprising the number of everyday things that you can. And
how little the performance can often change as a result of moving from osax
call to vanilla handler call. And how quickly you learn to write code that
doesn't totally honk when there's no longer anyone else there to provide
any of those functions for you. I've gotten to be a much better scripter
once I got over the initial Akua withdrawal symptoms.:)
<wistful>
Now, if only there was the level of support for AS libraries as exists for
Perl...
</wistful>
:p
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Or is the reason infinitely darker: apple has broken things again...
I wouldn't have thought so. [Occam's Razor]
If anything, I'm kinda glad there hasn't been many osaxen appearing on X.
Now I'm just hoping to heck the new plugin architecture is such that it
puts an end to some of the more unwelcome habits of osaxen: installing
silent-but-deadly coercions and smooshy namespace keyword collisions. It
would be a chance to start afresh, and Do Things Right. Fingers crossed, eh?
has
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