[OS X TeX] Why so severe?

Peter Dyballa Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE
Fri Mar 30 14:00:28 EDT 2007


Am 30.03.2007 um 18:08 schrieb Bruno Voisin:

> and I didn't understand either its relation to the TeX problem of  
> the original poster. What do you mean about Apple's Bug Reporter  
> (is this Apple's web interface for reporting bug you're talking  
> about, and the way Apple engineers report their dealing of the  
> problem to you?), and what's its relation to TeX?

It's my general impression that Tiger gets worse every day. For  
Panther I could not report so many bugs. And a standard answer to all  
my bug reports is, it's already known. And the interface to report  
bugs at Apple has become worse and less functional, motivating me to  
deliver equally bad descriptions. So why should TeX on Tiger improve  
in all this decline?!

Have you heard about guerilla marketing? Mac OS X 10.4.9 is another  
marketing trick to motivate people to buy Leopard. To get, hopefully,  
at least rid of its pile of bugs.


My response to André was partly a joke – and partly a complaint, that  
TeX on MS Windows is so much more mature, offering real great and  
useful services. And partly it was also a recommendation: since /he/  
has a (well equipped) intel based Mac he can use Bootcamp to have  
some MS Windows running ...

--
Greetings

   Pete

When people run around and around in circles we say they are crazy.  
When planets do it we say they are orbiting.



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