Re: Should I not have avoided Leopard?
Re: Should I not have avoided Leopard?
- Subject: Re: Should I not have avoided Leopard?
- From: "Reese, Stevan" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:48:05 -0800
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: Should I not have avoided Leopard?
1) I planned to take it in steps knowing that there would be issues. My production users are still on Tiger. For me the issues are more than just Leopard/Tiger as my scripts use Excel and InDesign. (When my users get Leopard they will also get Office 2008 and CS3. I did some early tests which proved that I will have to rewrite or at least fix many lines of code.
2) I haven't spent a lot of time with AS in Leopard yet but I haven't noticed anything to be alarmed about unless we include Applications in the discussion.
3) Don't know yet, but there are improvements in Automator so you may be able to write simpler scripts and actions that do the same thing.
stevan
On ThuJan/17/08 6:30 AM, "Max Bonilla" <email@hidden> wrote:
Hello everyone,
I upgraded to Leopard a few days ago and noticed that many of my scripts do not run. These were scripts, some of them rather complex, that I use daily or on a very regular basis. Reading some of the discussion on the list, it seems to me that the only solution is to re-write scripts and upgrade software, something that is a non-negligible task. The hours that it may take (learning the differences in AppleScript, and implementing the changes in the many scripts), makes it very tempting to return to Tiger until a more propitious time.
Unfortunately, when I was at the Apple Store buying Leopard, the clerk dismissed the significance of the potential problem (I had only heard a little about it), noting that if it were that serious, they would have received information from Apple Support. Having being so busy at work, I have not followed the discussing here as closely as necessary to note the problem with his opinion.
So my questions:
1) From your perspective as scripters at various levels of expertise, is the effort to update scripts as tedious and time consuming as it seems to me?
2) A subjective question from your current experience about compatibility: In a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is not compatible at all, and 10 is fully compatible, where do you rate Leopard's AppleScript in relation to Tiger's?
3) Is there a silver lining? In other words, is there a way to recover my scripts without too much re-writing or am I caught in the wheels of progress?
Thanks!
Max
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