Re: Re[6]: Installer is not showing Upgrade button in Leopard
Re: Re[6]: Installer is not showing Upgrade button in Leopard
- Subject: Re: Re[6]: Installer is not showing Upgrade button in Leopard
- From: Nathan Duran <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:21:05 -0800
On Nov 27, 2007, at 2:07 PM, Peter Mulholland wrote:
So is NSIS on Windows, which is more powerful.
PM has most of the power I've ever needed personally, but its UI is
confusing in its inconsistent use of terminology, its documentation
sparse, and I'd certainly prefer that it didn't crash or corrupt its
own project files constantly. I absolutely loathe having to launch
that application because I just know something's going to break simply
because I looked at it.
Hmm, I did initially hate Xcode, and I still prefer Visual Studio, but
it's not bad.
It's certainly gotten better since Adobe made their demands clear, but
its design philosophy remains centered around the notion that shell
scripting support is an excuse for never implementing a lot of
features that would actually make developers' lives easier, and I'm
still waiting for basic things that CodeWarrior had a decade ago--like
a text editor/code browser that could provide accurate syntax
highlighting/hyperlink-style navigation AND keep up with an average
person's typing speed on a 100MHz PPC 601, but we're way off topic now.
The gist of my opining is that if Apple did 1/16th as much usability
research for their developer tools as they do for the shiny trinkets
that look good on TV there'd be fewer developers making silly mistakes
and (probably) more good Mac software. Of course, there'd also be
fewer DTS incidents from confused developers funding those
researcher's salaries, so it's a tough nut to crack. I guess I just
miss the days when there was actual competition in the Mac IDE market.
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