Jeff,
My condolences. Way back when I was beta testing my own software, I
kept several Macs "frozen in time" with old OSs. Unfortunately, this
kind of stopped with the advent of OSX; never believing in my worst
of dreams that there would be significant differences between the
various OSX releases. Was I ever dumb!
So, it seems that Rev needs to line up a series of reliable testers
who maintain "frozen in time" machines. I would think that they would
have done this in house in the first place; but, perhaps, they too
were caught unawares, now needing to rethink this strategy. This
programming thing just isn't very easy or simple these days, just
when we thought it might be getting to be both. (uncomfortable smile)
Joe Wilkins
On Jun 3, 2007, at 11:14 PM, Jeff Reynolds wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] we just sent our cd out for replication, im trying to put a
stop on it if possible. 10.1 and 10.2 ARE STILL ALIVE AND WELL IN
THE SCHOOLS! This is a big problem for our product. We tested 10.3,
and 10.4 on ppc and intel, but not 10.2 on ppc. I can still create
a 10.1-10.2 from 2.6.1 like i do for classic or i guess go back to
2.8.0 to try the universal build, but we are screwed if the disc
has already been replicated...
the major jumps in OSX still cost the schools $$ which they dont
always have and some are very old imacs that dont upgrade to the
newer systems w/o additional memory and sometimes hard drive space
(read more $$$$ and tech support). many schools just keep the
computers at the os they were shipped with, some dont even do the
free automatic updates! Yes you will say this is not right, but its
what you just have to deal with when working in the education
market, like it or not. just a fact of life you cant change. We
have found that a lot of home computers that have been handed down
to the kids for their home education machine are in a similar
situation. frozen at the os when handed down and no additional
upgrades until they buy a whole new computer.
has anyone else tried the 2.8.1 ub builds on 10.2?
i can get our app on a 10.2 system later on monday for a test. this
is going to hurt if it has to be redone as we will have to do
another golden master testing round and delay replication a week,
ouch...
thanks
Jeffrey Reynolds
On Jun 3, 2007, at 1:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Now this is something I think we need to worry about less than having
a "Classic" potential; since most people who have OSX are going to be
moving up to the latest due to the ease with which Apple makes
updating the OS. Or am I in the minority when I get automatic updates
from Apple on just about everything whenever there is new software?
I'd be willing to bet that there are many, many fewer using OSX 2.8
than are using OS9.2.
Joe Wilkins
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