Re: Disk doesn't meet Safari 3 requirements

In article <170920071546138151%nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
nospam <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <JoJ1t5.821@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, James Glidewell
<jimglidewell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I remember well one ill effect - every time you wanted to upgrade a
single application, the system would spend a *lot* of time searching
all of your disks for all copies of said application. This could take
a *long* time. It then presented you with list of copies of the app
and asked you *which* copy or copies you wanted updated. Sometimes
you could only do one at a time.

some third party updaters did scan the whole drive but apple's system
updates did not do this.

That scheme was bad enough back in the days of 30MB-2GB drives - it
would be awful when folks have multiple 300GB drives and use syncing
as their backup strategy. And updates can affect multiple applications.

except that hard drives are much faster than they were back then, the
computers are a helluva lot faster than they were back then, and there
is this thing called spotlight that indexes the drive and supposedly
can search it instantly.

However, the user can selective inhibit Spotlight searching which might
prevent the update from finding the application.

For a standard Mac OS X "point" update, there may be dozens of applications
being changed - this would be lots of searches, and lots of dialogs boxes.

would it? how many people have more than one copy of safari or itunes?

There can be related libraries and frameworks that might be shared among
more than one application.

it is restrictive, and it does not need to be.

It is a restriction that is found on essentially every OS except Mac OS9
and earlier.

exactly. os9 and earlier got this one right.

Yeah, life was simpler back then.

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