For what its worth, I echo this sentiment 100% and have been feeling the same 
of late.  A statement on the future of Quartz Composer one way or the other 
would be appreciated - but I doubt forthcoming. 

With bated breath... 


On Jun 11, 2012, at 8:34 PM, George Toledo wrote:

> A little, aside:
> 
> QC is one of the best node based editing systems there is (especially w/ the 
> integration with cocoa). It's a shame that frustrating problems like this go 
> unsolved, and that one of the leading outside developers of QC tech, Chris 
> Wright, was snatched up only to result in such unspectacular results and 
> pedestrian bugs, while stymying the pace of outside innovations that, at 
> least I, greatly enjoyed previously. I would guess we all expected more than 
> an even buggier editor and a face detection patch that doesn't work outside 
> of the QC editor.
> 
> I mean, there's still a Volume drawing mode on stuff like Mesh Creator - a 
> *public* patch release in SL - that still doesn't work, and SL was announced 
> in '08. I believe my bug on that was closed with no resolution, and it's 
> still there, still not working. To me, bits like that say a great deal. Apple 
> may have bigger fish to fry.
> 
> My take is, unless we see a listing for "qc guy" pop up on the apple career 
> listings, get creative with dealing with working around the problems (maybe 
> the qtz won't crash in your own app context for instance), figure out how to 
> override classes and backwards engineer stuff so that you can knock out 
> problem spots for your projects, or start figuring out what else you're going 
> to use.
> 
> I say this all in the best of spirits and attempt at helpfulness.
> 
> Best regards,
> George Toledo
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Jun 11, 2012, at 7:47 PM, Jerry Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Could there be a problem with older versions of CI filter with JS in the CI 
>> filter? I'm seeing similar behavior with other comps.
>> 
>> Jerry
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