Re: Should I not have avoided Leopard?
Re: Should I not have avoided Leopard?
- Subject: Re: Should I not have avoided Leopard?
- From: "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:27:47 -0500
- Thread-topic: Should I not have avoided Leopard?
"Rob Stott" wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Mmmm.
>
> Maybe I was lucky but we've got around 20 pretty complex scripts being used.
> Only one broke and it was a 2 minute job to put it right (I forget the exact
> details - something unicode related).
>
>> 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 Leopard¹s
>> AppleScript in relation to Tiger¹s?
>
> In my personal experience it'd have to be a 9.5 (1 script broken out of 20!).
>
>> 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?
>
>
> I'm surprised it's so much of an issue for you to be honest. Maybe you've just
> been unlucky. I guess the only solution is to bite the bullet and get fixing
> them... or stick with Tiger forever!
I've had no problems with scripts in Leopard.
However, I still prefer Tiger for lots of other reasons that are off-topic
here.
(And, is there a strange double-negative in your subject? You *didn't*
avoid Leopard, right?)
I'd have to agree with Rob on each point:
no script changes of any significance, so far;
would rate personal experience with script compatibility at 9.5;
silver lining: Leopard looks better, some great new Finder features,
Time Machine is very cool (but once per hour is overkill, IMO),
and QuickLook is top-notch and my favorite new feature (press
space bar to see all kinds of files without opening an app...Word docs
behave a little weird sometimes, but for a QuickLook, it's just perfect)
lead lining: Entourage seems to hate Leopard, but it mostly works, some
apps do crash for no apparent reason but are easy enough to restore by
session, Leopard is slower by a long shot (slower in click response, window
open, etc.)(I have 1 GB RAM and a generally fast processor...blazing with
Tiger.)
Overall, I like Leopard. I got it for a gift over the holidays, but I
wouldn't have purchased it myself (for a few more months).
If you don't need it for something, and if you have confirmed that your apps
will actually work (some of mine do not, yet...or not fully, or not well),
then you should choose carefully. But that's always true with OS changes,
so nothing new there.
Maybe if you said what the specific problems were...if they are general
enough to be grouped in some way. (Like "text handling" is a problem in
several scripts; "mail.app scripts are broken", "pdf scripts are different",
etc.)
This is, of course, one of the MAIN REASONS to use script libraries and to
keep those handlers small, specific and well at hand.
--
Gary
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