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- Item 4199861 20-Feb-91 11:21
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- From: LSR@APPLE.COM@INTERNET# Gateway to Internet/BITNET/UUCP
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- To: MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- INTERNET# Document Id: <12176@goofy.Apple.COM>
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- Sub: Re: MA3 opinion,for what its w
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- From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
- Subject: Re: MA3 opinion,for what its worth
- References: <667070461.3039537@AppleLink.Apple.COM>
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- Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
- Newsgroups: apple.mac.app
- Path: apple!lsr
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- In article <667070461.3039537@AppleLink.Apple.COM> SATORI@AppleLink.Apple.COM
- (Satori SW, Hugh Rogovy,PRT) writes:
- >
- >I would think that that any competent OP programmer who puts forth a small
- >amount of effort would be able to make the syntax transition to C++ (use the
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- I agree. While it's true that you can write some convoluted expressions and
- declarations, these are the exception, rather than the rule.
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- >isn't the issue here. What we(I) really need a guarantee that MacApp is going
- >to become design-stable (or painlessly updatable) someday. We wrote an app in
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- It's hard to know what's the right thing to do in this case.
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- The standard Mac Toolbox doesn't have the "luxury" of making major changes,
- because it is shared between applications. Applications continue to work on
- new systems/ROMs. On the other hand, adding new features is very difficult;
- today's Macintosh suffers because of design decisions made in 1984.
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- MacApp is linked with every application, so there is more freedom to make
- changes. Developers can choose to stick with their existing version rather
- than update. (You lose new features and bug fixes, but you gain stability.)
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- When the number of MacApp users was small, the feeling we got was that
- improvements were more important than stability. Perhaps that's no longer
- true.
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- >code can many times be a hindrance) costs us money. It is true that source
- >code for the toolbox is not available, but the toolbox wasn't followed by a
- >42-page bug report, either. I don't mean that as a slight to the MA team,
- >they
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- I'm sure that the Toolbox has as many bugs as the Toolbox. But the Toolbox
- bug descriptions are spread out over many different Tech Notes (if they are
- written down at all). The reason MacApp has a 42-page bug report has more
- to do with the MacApp community (both inside and outside of Apple) than with
- the quality of MacApp or with the issue of source vs. no-source.
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- Larry
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- Larry Rosenstein, Object Specialist
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