Re: launch broken in Mt Lion
Re: launch broken in Mt Lion
- Subject: Re: launch broken in Mt Lion
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:14:37 +1000
On 05/06/2013, at 7:45 AM, Luther Fuller <email@hidden> wrote:
> Bug reports seem to be ineffective.
> Who do I bitch to?
We'll do. If the bug has been logged, there's nothing else you can do except maybe encourage others to log duplicates.
But at this stage it seems likely that one of three things will happen:
* The next major OS version will fix it.
* It will remain unfixed for ever and a day.
* The bug will be closed and the current behavior will be documented in release notes as the official behavior.
And to decide which is likely to happen, one thing you have to consider is how serious it is and how many people it's likely to affect. I fear the answers will be not very and not many, especially after the change in behavior of the run command a while back, but I could be wrong.
If I were a betting man, I'd put my money on #2. The other options strike me as about the same odds, but only because release notes seem to have hit a bug of their own.
You might also care to speculate on why it's not being fixed.
It might be as simple as a triage decision: do I keep working on this important code that's due soon or do I stop and fix this bug?
It might be that the bug lies in another team's code, and that the AS team have logged bugs elsewhere. That bug could face the same process as above, and repeat.
It might also be that changes in the OS mean that it can only be fixed by changing the code in script applets, and that might not be something to be done lightly.
It might be that changes in the OS, for whatever reason, mean that that sort of behavior is no longer possible.
It might just be considered too much effort that can better be spent elsewhere.
Who knows and can answer? You could keep speculating endlessly, but the result is the same: you have to be prepared for the fact that it might never be fixed, and either consider a different approach or give up.
--
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
'AppleScriptObjC Explored' <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>
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