Re[3]: Installer chewing up CPU time on 10.3 while running postinstall
Re[3]: Installer chewing up CPU time on 10.3 while running postinstall
- Subject: Re[3]: Installer chewing up CPU time on 10.3 while running postinstall
- From: Peter Bierman <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:02:45 -0700
At 11:22 PM +0100 10/14/06, Peter Mulholland wrote:
Why on earth, have Apple not pushed out Installer updates to 10.3 users?
Distribution scripts and such would make our lives a hell of a lot
easier!
We have found that our customers are best served by focusing our
energy on continuous improvement instead of establishing a functional
baseline.
For example, it's probable that we'd never have created distribution
scripts if we had instead been porting 10.3 functionality back to
10.2.
This is obviously frustrating to some developers and users. It's
frustrating to me too that we can't please everyone, because I really
like our users and developers. :-)
But someday 10.4 will be the acceptable baseline. And someday 10.5,
etc... So with every release we raise the bar so when that someday
comes, developers will have the installer features they need for
their products.
I don't have the authority to release an exact breakdown of what
percentages of our customers are running 10.4 vs 10.3, etc, but it's
much more dramatic than most people would estimate. You might want to
evaluate whether supporting your product on 10.3 is actually
necessary.
For example, the Omni Group publishes these statistics gathered from
their users: http://update.omnigroup.com/
-pmb
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