Re: Call for user feedback for ICC June meeting
Re: Call for user feedback for ICC June meeting
- Subject: Re: Call for user feedback for ICC June meeting
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 07:12:02 -0700
on 3/13/01 6:49 PM, John Zimmerer at email@hidden wrote:
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I can't speak for third parties, but Apple's ColorSync installers (at least
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the newest ones that I have experience with) do version checking at a pretty
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low level. For example, ColorSync 3.x won't even install on an OS older than
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Mac OS 9.x for compatibility and functionality reasons. And the installer is
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smart enough to recognize when a newer version is installed and gives the
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user a dialogue with that info.
Apple's installer is doing things correctly. But as John points out, the
mess is with 3rd parties. I don't know how many times I've hosed a more
recent version of ColorSync by installing an Epson driver which installed an
older version of ColorSync. I guess Apple has no control over how a 3rd
party decides to install their software (is there any licensing agreements
from Apple to discourage this? Could they ask that there be a two part
installer so that Epson could deal with the driver and latter deal with
ColorSync and have that installer as intelligent as Apples?). I'm sure there
are others out there doing this like Epson and I'm not trying to single them
out. I do know that it's really common to find multiple copies of ColorSync
installed on users machines, usually due to an install for an Epson printer.
At least we can thank Epson for making a product that IS ColorSync savvy.
Andrew Rodney