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- From: werner@soe.berkeley.edu (John Werner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: IMPORTANT MPW C 3.2.3 NOTICE
- Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Date: 10 Sep 1992 18:26:33 GMT
- Organization: UC Berkeley School of Education
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- References: <BuA5C6.9pM@taligent.com> <2AAE7633.5AC@intercon.com>
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- In article <2AAE7633.5AC@intercon.com>, amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
- wrote:
- >
- > keith@taligent.com (Keith Rollin) writes:
- > > I haven't paid close attention to ETO, lately, but I think that many of the
- > > problems that get posted are with products that are in Experimental folders.
- >
- > All of the major problems I have run into have been with the "Latest MPW"
- > folder, which is supposed to be the latest and greatest released, ready-for-
- > prime-time MPW. Generally the Experimental stuff is much more reliable, in
- > fact. On ETO 7 it was the shell. On ETO 8 it was the C compiler. What'll
- > it be on ETO 9?
-
- This kind of reminds me of the thing that really bothers me the most about
- ETO.
- People from Apple tend to point out that much of ETO is "prerelease" or
- "experimental" software, and we shouldn't complain too much if it is buggy.
- IF Apple provided non-buggy, "released" development tools that did what we
- need in a timely fasion, that would be fine. But Apple usually doesn't.
- MacApp is a good example; version 3.0 wasn't final until one _year_ after
- System 7 shipped.
-
- I'm not complaining about Apple employees, especially the ones in developer
- support who seem to work far harder than they really should have to. And
- I'm not complaining too much about the quality of the tools themselves; I
- really like MacApp. But Apple needs to make more of a commitment (i.e.
- more engineers and more money) to producing good developer tools when the
- developers need them.
-
- --
- John Werner werner@soe.berkeley.edu
- UC Berkeley School of Education 510-642-9651
-