Re: Smile (Was: AppleScript4programmers)
Re: Smile (Was: AppleScript4programmers)
- Subject: Re: Smile (Was: AppleScript4programmers)
- From: Bruce Robertson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:07:58 -0800
> At 11:12 AM +0100 12/6/07, Skeeve wrote:
>> Emmanuel wrote:
>>> Since we make Smile, why would Apple do that? Let them maintain
>>> AppleScript it's enough work.
>>
>> I haven't tried it yet. I wanted to, but I already can say that it
>> will have a hard stand.
>> 1) It comes as a .pkg -> I usually ignore such things
>
> That's your problem.
>
>> 2) It wants me to reboot -> WHY? I thought it's an Editor/IDE thing.
>> Why shall I reboot? Is this WinDOS?
>>
>> Since I don't reboot until the next 10.4 update comes, I think,
>> smile will have to wait.
>
> That's an issue, you're right.
>
> The point is that in some rare circumstances it's good to restart the
> machine after installing Smile. The reason is that Smile's installer
> installs / replaces some Scripting additions, and if some background
> process has already loaded a S.A. which was replaced it may crash.
>
> In most cases you don't really need to restart. For instance, we at
> Satimage-software never do. Just quit the installer. Installer maker
> does not allow for providing an optional restart.
>
> Emmanuel
Really?
I try out lots of applications and it seems there are very few other
installers that force a restart.
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