Serious Jaguar/Panther interop problem
I just ran into a really distressing problem with Mac OS X. I mounted my Panther-PowerBook's boot drive on my Jaguar-PowerMac, so that I could copy the PowerBook's copy of SubEthaEdit from its Applications folder into my PowerMac's Applications folder.
SubEthaEdit wouldn't run on Jaguar. Okay, maybe it was built against the newer SDK, so it won't run. Same thing happened when I tried SubEthaEdit 1.1.4 from the disk image on Jaguar.
A little later, I accidentally launched iTunes. It presented me with its license agreement and setup windows! Weird, I thought, I guess my iTunes setup was wrecked somehow.
Then a few minutes ago I tried double-clicking on a PDF (I'm still using the Jaguar-PowerMac at this point) that's in my ~/Documents folder. A window appears saying it can't run the application because it's not compatible with the system!
I right-click the PDF, choose Open With, and there's two Preview entries listed. 2.0.1, and 2.1 (default). 2.1 is the version on Panther!
So, because I had my Panther machine mounted, it was loading THOSE applications, because their version numbers were higher!
That's BAD.
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November 7th, 2003 - 12:36
> So, because I had my Panther machine mounted, it was loading THOSE
>applications, because their version numbers were higher!
>
> That’s BAD.
Geez, even Windows machines don’t screw up THAT bad.
It would appear Apple’s really made a mess with their recent updates. Hopefully
they’ll fix it and learn from their mistakes. You’d think they’d know better
having done this before AND watching MS make it’s own mess of it.
November 7th, 2003 - 12:58
On Nov 7, 2003, at 12:42 PM, Bill Kearney wrote:
>> So, because I had my Panther machine mounted, it was loading THOSE
>> applications, because their version numbers were higher!
>>
>> That’s BAD.
>
> Geez, even Windows machines don’t screw up THAT bad.
>
> It would appear Apple’s really made a mess with their recent updates.
> Hopefully
> they’ll fix it and learn from their mistakes. You’d think they’d know
> better
> having done this before AND watching MS make it’s own mess of it.
Actually I don’t think this is a Jaguar/Panther issue. I bet this
would have happened if you were running OS8 and mounted an OS9 drive…
but I think those OS9 apps would have ran. They might not have worked,
but they would have launched. It’s all because of the stupid
type/creator code system macs use, and the Finder’s feeling that
launching an app by creator code rather than path is a good thing. Mac
OS X just inherited that problem because the Finder is trying to be
Mac-ish instead of UNIX-ish. Stupid stupid stupid.
Jim