site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com On Feb 2, 2008, at 3:03 PM, Paul Miller wrote: _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... I've been in the "software industry" for 20 years. Only Apple (and its apologists) seem to find that attitude acceptable. Being an Apple-only developer/consultant, perhaps you don't realize the "software industry" is far far larger than you think it is. As a cross-platform developer, I feel compelled to point out where I think one platform got something wrong that others got right - with the best interests of the customer in mind. I'd never dream of apologizing for the state of any of Apple's development tools--complaining about them more often than using them got me fired from Apple after all--but given the amount of time they presently dedicate to maintaining the current versions, stretching those resources even thinner to make everything backward compatible for a tiny handful of self-proclaimed gadflies who fancy themselves champions of consumer justice would only mean even more bugs for everybody else. Perhaps you can elaborate as to what amazing new feature 10.5's Installer has brought that you simply cannot live without in 10.4? I haven't found any of them to be terribly important, and many of them seem to be quite horribly broken to boot. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com