Re: Platform Phunnies

[Lee Richardson <lhr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mostly to point out that some quantity of platform balance exists in the FrameMaker management team, as a long-time, hard-core Mac user and trained computer professional, I still do MacOS updates by installing fresh System Folders and dragging files around. I can't do that on any of the Windows installs I've done.

That said, I can't imagine most Mac users being either capable of or interested in hand-updating their machines, and agree with Dov's comments below.

...Lee

At 9:04 AM -0800 2/18/02, Dov Isaacs wrote:

>No, just for the record, I was not making any jokes about the need to do
>the "clean install" for "upgrading" a PC from Windows'9x/Me to Windows 2000
>or XP. I hardly look at that as a real feature of any type, although for many
>users, it is indeed an opportunity to properly reorganize and streamline a
>computer system cluttered with years of program installations, updates,
>uninstalls, and the "doggy droppings" of old, obsolete modules left behind in
>system directories and elsewhere, not properly removed when software is updated
>or uninstalled.
>
>Lest you think that Macintosh users are immune to this type of problem, you
>are seriously deluding yourself if you believe that you can simply update
>a MacOS 9.x system by creating a new system folder and dumping the old one.
>The days in which application programs simply put all their programs into a
>single, easily identifiable, independent folder outside the system folder are
>regrettably long past. Even Macintosh-based applications create not only
>their own application program directories, but their installers most often now
>put executables and required data files that are not simply recreated via
>deletion (such as the infamous preferences files in the preferences subfolder)
>into various subfolders of the Mac's system folder. The days of simple
>Dragon-Drop for application installation and movement on a Mac are long gone
>for recent versions of most applications.
>
>And with MacOS X is even more convoluted this way. Makes the "computernerdishkeit"
>of Windows and Eunuchs look trivial ...

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