On Aug 29, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Andrew Long wrote:
> Ha Snow Leopard roken the 'edit with macvim' functionality? I can't
> seem to find it anymore, although the integration preferences seems to
> think it's still there. This is another annoyance, as the upgrde seems
> to have broken growlmail, gpgmail, pgp desktop and gpgdropthing...
>
> Apple have obviously learnt the lesson of Microsoft - once you get big
> enough, you can afford to piss off all your users
I can *understand* that you are annoyed.
However, I think that you are putting blame wrongly here on the
shoulders of an OS maker rather than on the hacks to the OS.
I've just installed Snow Leopard yesterday on my work computer and did
not notice any break in functionality (that I care about).
The "Edit with MacVim" functionality was clearly described as a hack
that can go away in any future OS release.
Other programs mentioned above are also dealing with features that are
in the realm of the OS. Any program that writes into system
directories or utilizes obscure OS features can fully expect to break
during the OS upgrade.
Apple, Microsoft, Red Hat, or any other OS vendor, can only ensure
that they supply fully functioning programs with their OS. Third-
party programs are the responsibility of the third-party vendors.
They have to test their programs with the new OS -- not Apple,
Microsoft, or Red Hat. The pre-releases are always available for
developers.
The OS upgrade has always been a big deal and there's always a risk
that some program will not work with the features added/removed. If
that program is *extremely* important, people don't upgrade the OS
until the upgrade of that program is available for the new OS.
I've seen this in upgrades to numerous OSs (vendors): VMS (Digital),
HPUX (HP), IRIX (SGI), SunOS/Solaris (Sun), AIX (IBM), Linux (Red Hat
and Novell), Windows/DOS (Microsoft), Mac OS X (Apple).
If growl, gpg, or "Edit with MacVim" features are so important to you,
why did you upgrade *before* making sure that all of these are
available for Snow Leopard?
Zvezdan
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