Re: Why so few OSX Additions?
Re: Why so few OSX Additions?
- Subject: Re: Why so few OSX Additions?
- From: Matthew Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 18:57:51 +1000
on 21/06/2003 11:22, Timothy Bates at email@hidden wrote:
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I think this is for two reasons. Firstly, it is hard to sell additions, and
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so only people with a model for pushing a for-sale product on the back of
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the osax, or people with a market willing to pay real money can do the
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development.
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Secondly, most of the osax were developed a decade ago when AppleScript was
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slower than now. Much of what osax used to do people now do with vanilla
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AppleScript
Of course, some functionality can be provided with the BSD underpinnings of
Mac OS X, by using 'do shell script', something that was not available in
Mac OS 9. You can not just look at the overall number of additions, but what
they actually do. If that functionality can be done without writing an
addition in OS X then there really is no need for the addition.
--
Matthew Smith
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