Re:Mac OS X 10.6.1 is out already.
by silvestrov on Friday September 11, 2009 @08:22AM
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I think Apple wanted to play down releasing a security update so shortly after the initial release because the media went crazy about 10.6 shipping with a non-secure Flash player.
So they mixed in a few small improvements and shipped it as a point release. It played well, I haven't seen any articles in e.g. computerworld that Apple finally fixed the security problem.
Re:Mac OS X 10.6.1 is out already.
by randallsquared on Thursday September 10, 2009 @10:42PM
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I was planning to wait until SIMBL was working on 10.6, but it appears that it already is if you tell the app it's modifying to open in 32-bit, so I might upgrade shortly.
I agree that with such widely distributed software, browsing forums and news aggregators might well be as useful as waiting to see what's fixed.
SIMBL will probably fall into obsolescence with input managers being disabled for 64-bit apps.
PlugSuit, on the other hand, is SIMBL-compatible and uses a completely different method of injection. The author just needs to work around some new limitations introduced in Snow Leopard before it works with 64-bit apps. I would keep your eyes peeled for an update.
Re:Mac OS X 10.6.1 is out already.
by randallsquared on Friday September 11, 2009 @12:52AM
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If only they would enable copy-on-select as a regular preference for Terminal, I'd have no further need of SIMBL. :)
But it just got me thinking that we must understand these heuristics and not just follow them blindly.
I wasn't saying the OC did a bad thing, just thinking out loud about how "wait for the first point release" can be arbitrary since with such a popular software, you could read the feedback on various forums to see how stable it is.
If you're going to be having a major problem, chances are others will have it too. And if it's a minor problem that almost nobody has except you, it might not be fixed in the first point release.