On Sep 3, 2012, at 10:24 PM, Adam Strzelecki <o...@java.pl> wrote:

>> […] I can have 10.6 users auto-update to your builds, there still is a few 
>> still using r9147 on 10.6.
> Hmm, what about disabling auto-updates at all instead for this backport :) ?

Users may update their OS and take with them their old installed software.

>> (…) Build number is (sort of) only relevant for software update checks and 
>> crash reporting (matching crashes to the correct version).
> 
> As above. I think supporting this is IMHO waste of your time, that can be 
> spent on developing other useful features.

OK, I take it you’re now on 10.7+ so the current 32 bit / 10.6 builds are the 
last ones. Though I did extend the version string to include some build info, 
incase this is relevant (this extension was primarily for better being able to 
track which versions people are using when submitting crash reports.

> […] I am bit against translating developer tools into anything other than 
> English. This works fine for some retail products like Office where your UI 
> have same language as the content you are working on. In case of developer 
> tools, the content - programming languages - are all English, so what's the 
> purpose of having UI expressed in non-English language.
> 
> Moreover I don't see how one can maintain all bundle menu, alerts, output 
> translations to make single language translation complete (ever). This would 
> be simply a nightmare!? 


Just a “for the records” people who doesn’t natively write with the latin 
alphabet may be OK reading English but it has a non-insignificant cognitive 
overhead, so even a poorly half-translated UI will be much appreciated by these 
people.

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