Hi Everyone
FWIW, I just installed 2006 on a dual G5 Mac with Tiger and the only
problem I've had so far is the fonts not appearing. I think that was
because I forgot to restart after installing. Anyway, deleting the
com.Apple.ATS file in the library and restarting solved the problem.
(This was a problem with 2005 as well.)
BTW, I backed up my Application Support folders to another drive
before installing, but they were left untouched.
Jeff
Third Bear Music
On Jul 28, 2005, at 6:47 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 28 Jul 2005 at 18:25, dhbailey wrote:
Darcy James Argue wrote:
I can't speak to their in-house testing, but installers often get
short shrift. (They shouldn't, because then stuff like this
happens!)
Beta testers were given an installer to test, but it did not have
this problem.
Why would a company give their beta testers one installer and then
ship with an untested one? . . .
I'm sure they tested the shipping installer. But the kind of problem
exhibited is one that is not going to be detected on most testbed
machines.
. . . Who's in charge over there? Change
something, and then test the darn thing. It's not rocket science to
see if something works, even though it might be rocket science to fix
a problem when it shows up.
Test results are only as good as the test.
I would bet my next paycheck that MakeMusic *did* test the installer,
and several times, but they didn't examine the areas in which the bug
turned out to happen.
That's a description of EVERY BUG IN EVERY PIECE OF SOFTWARE THAT'S
EVER EXISTED. The bugs you find, you fix (insofar as you're able).
It's the bugs you don't find that bite you, and you can only find
them by adequate testing, and the test has to be the *right* test.
Unfortunately, sometimes the "test" that reveals the bug doesn't
emerge until the code is installed by the users.
I would actually blame the makers of the installer, myself, as an
installer shouldn't allow the removal of existing folders without
taking some kind of special action to make that happen.
--
David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc
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