At 3:44 PM -0600 11/10/2008, Kris Tilford wrote: >On Nov 10, 2008, at 3:16 PM, Dan wrote: > > A responsible programmer would have put appropriate sanity (sic) >> checks in their code to make sure it DOESN'T LOAD if it's on an >> unsupported configuration. > >This is crazy. You're telling me that a software developer should go >back and make certain that old releases (in this case FREEWARE) is >compatible with newer OS's released later?
WIth something this critical, the design should check - period. That it fails to do so is a MAJOR bug that should have been fixed, and retrofitted into older releases. The buggy versions should then have been withdrawn from distribution. >Come on, give me a break! >It's FREEWARE. Read the instructions before installing! Sorry, I program - so I don't give programmers a break for fundamental gross bugs such as this, ever. This isn't a simple app that punts. This is a piece of code that takes down a WHOLE OS. Apple gets some fault too. They know of this problem and yet they LET it take down the OS! They could fix that! > > I'm sorry. While it's great for users to read release notes and >> such... Programmers are responsible for making their code SAFE, >> period. > >Yes, but safe for the OS they were designed and supported to work >with. In this case, the freeware program "Dock Detox" is supported for >"PCC PowerMacs in OS 10.2, 10.3, or 10.4". And the programmer's arms were broken - he/she/it was unable to check the boundary conditions - less than 10.1 and greater than 10.4? Oh please! This is a fundamental programming failure. If I'd done it in high school, my teacher would have gone into convulsions trying to resist whapping me upside the head! - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
