On Jul 21, 2011, at 5:53 PM, Bruce Rubin wrote:
> BTW, I'm still waiting for someone to answer my question: "has anybody tried
> installing Rosetta AFTER they've installed 10.7 from the 10.6 installation
> DVD ("Double-click the Optional Installs folder, and then double-click the
> Optional Installs package.
I would be flabbergasted if this worked. If it was that easy, Apple wouldn't
have removed it. Contrary to popular opinion Apple does not screw over
customers for the Jobsian lulz. Rosetta was killed because Rosetta was causing
problems or didn't work anymore.
This is sheer speculation, but I'll wager it's tied up with that ARC pseudo
garbage collection stuff John was talking about when he got into the details of
Objective C memory handling. This is REALLY low level stuff, and if Rosetta's
got a lot of plain old C in it, it would have been VERY difficult to make it
ARC clean.
As a semi-related side note, ~/Library is now a hidden folder. Mac OSX Hints
has a hint about turning that on and off.
--
Bruce Johnson
"Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD
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