Mac UB standalones and OS versions

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Jeff,

My condolences. Way back when I was beta testing my own software, I  
kept several Macs "frozen in time" with old OSs. Unfortunately, this  
kind of stopped with the advent of OSX; never believing in my worst  
of dreams that there would be significant differences between the  
various OSX releases. Was I ever dumb!

So, it seems that Rev needs to line up a series of reliable testers  
who maintain "frozen in time" machines. I would think that they would  
have done this in house in the first place; but, perhaps, they too  
were caught unawares, now needing to rethink this strategy. This  
programming thing just isn't very easy or simple these days, just  
when we thought it might be getting to be both. (uncomfortable smile)

Joe Wilkins

On Jun 3, 2007, at 11:14 PM, Jeff Reynolds wrote:

> #$@%#^$ we just sent our cd out for replication, im trying to put a  
> stop on it if possible. 10.1 and 10.2 ARE STILL ALIVE AND WELL IN  
> THE SCHOOLS! This is a big problem for our product. We tested 10.3,  
> and 10.4 on ppc and intel, but not 10.2 on ppc. I can still create  
> a 10.1-10.2 from 2.6.1 like i do for classic or i guess go back to  
> 2.8.0 to try the universal build, but we are screwed if the disc  
> has already been replicated...
>
> the major jumps in OSX still cost the schools $$ which they dont  
> always have and some are very old imacs that dont upgrade to the  
> newer systems w/o additional memory and sometimes hard drive space  
> (read more $$$$ and tech support). many schools just keep the  
> computers at the os they were shipped with, some dont even do the  
> free automatic updates! Yes you will say this is not right, but its  
> what you just have to deal with when working in the education  
> market, like it or not. just a fact of life you cant change. We  
> have found that a lot of home computers that have been handed down  
> to the kids for their home education machine are in a similar  
> situation. frozen at the os when handed down and no additional  
> upgrades until they buy a whole new computer.
>
> has anyone else tried the 2.8.1 ub builds on 10.2?
>
> i can get our app on a 10.2 system later on monday for a test. this  
> is going to hurt if it has to be redone as we will have to do  
> another golden master testing round and delay replication a week,  
> ouch...
>
> thanks
>
> Jeffrey Reynolds
>
>
> On Jun 3, 2007, at 1:00 PM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com  
> wrote:
>
>> Now this is something I think we need to worry about less than having
>> a "Classic" potential; since most people who have OSX are going to be
>> moving up to the latest due to the ease with  which Apple makes
>> updating the OS. Or am I in the minority when I get automatic updates
>> from Apple on just about everything whenever there is new software?
>> I'd be willing to bet that there are many, many fewer using OSX 2.8
>> than are using OS9.2.
>>
>> Joe Wilkins
>
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