Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:04:47 -0600 To: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden> From: Joel <email@hidden> Subject: Re: Call for user feedback for ICC June meeting Cc: Bcc: X-Attachments: on 3/13/01 6:49 PM, John Zimmerer at email@hidden wrote: I can't speak for third parties, but Apple's ColorSync installers (at least the newest ones that I have experience with) do version checking at a pretty low level. For example, ColorSync 3.x won't even install on an OS older than Mac OS 9.x for compatibility and functionality reasons. And the installer is smart enough to recognize when a newer version is installed and gives the user a dialogue with that info. Andrew Rodney wrote: 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. Hmmm..I do get off topic. Yes John, you're right. Yes Andrew you're right too. And from the number of CB, Bob's and others...you're all right. But i was off topic. All in all I'm pretty happy with Csync 3.01/3.03. Henrik makes a good point about the UI and it's relationship to the Csync control panel. More on topic and keeping low level, I'm new to the ICC discussion topics concept by the way, what about those MCH6, 6CLR, MCH8, 8CLR tags anyway? Anybody else run into these on a regular basis. Got to go do a little research...back in a few...
on 3/13/01 6:49 PM, John Zimmerer at email@hidden wrote: I can't speak for third parties, but Apple's ColorSync installers (at least the newest ones that I have experience with) do version checking at a pretty low level. For example, ColorSync 3.x won't even install on an OS older than Mac OS 9.x for compatibility and functionality reasons. And the installer is smart enough to recognize when a newer version is installed and gives the user a dialogue with that info. Andrew Rodney wrote: 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.
I can't speak for third parties, but Apple's ColorSync installers (at least the newest ones that I have experience with) do version checking at a pretty low level. For example, ColorSync 3.x won't even install on an OS older than Mac OS 9.x for compatibility and functionality reasons. And the installer is smart enough to recognize when a newer version is installed and gives the user a dialogue with that info.