Le sam 04/10/2003 à 12:54, Otto Haliburton a écrit : > > here's m .02 cents. The user shouldn't have to worry about how, what, or > why it works or doesn't work. The object of good development is that it > "all ways work". So what does that mean? It means that all packages should > contain everything necessary for that instant to work now matter what > happened before it arrives. When you obtain a package freely or pay for it, > you don't need to dig up everything else that will require that package to > work. We developers like to troubleshoot, but it a waste of time and effort > to troubleshoot the needs and intentions of another developer. That's my > opinion and I'm stuck with it. Dear user, As we all know you're dumb and you can not learn to use a package manager ever. To ease your pain we've decided not to inflict you the so-called "dependency hell" and provide you an autonomous application. Just click on its auto-update menu and it will download everything you need, we swear it. Of course when you've done you'll just have to do a cpan refresh, tell xemacs to auto-update itself, your movie player to download new codecs, mozilla to download a langage pack and a few themes and by the way did you know about this wonderful openoffice macro that will help you update your spellchecker ? To help you keep up with updates we've thoughtfully provided a "time to update" popup that will remind you every few weeks you need to keep up with us. To avoid any misunderstanding we designed it to be completely different from the swarm of update popups you deal with every day. Since another application might update some libraries we depend on at an inconvenient time, we've provided you with a private copy of all the dependencies we need. You can be sure no one will mess with their configuration files or change their format, since we also use a private copy of these files. God forbid it was trampled on by one of those nasty control panel thingies ! The system has no business telling us what fonts to use. We swear we'll keep up with security fixes for all this peripheral uninteresting stuff, at least as long as it doesn't interfere with our application wellbeing but you won't mind because we know best and you trust us. To avoid migration breakage we even use different configuration files for each version. You just have to re-enter the few scores of options our app use and you're done ! No risk of automated conversion mess-up whatsoever ! The app will even refuse to start till you've filled the four screens of configuration to prevent mess-ups ! You might need to get yourself a new disk of pay for a broadband link, but that's truly trivial and you should thank us to help you keep with your times. We're pleased to inform you we're working on a bootable standalone CD that will drop you in your preferred application without having to worry about the system altogether. For the time being we've implemented a 100% user-side install so you won't have to worry about nasty unix permissions. Just click the setup icon and the whole app will install itself in Wonderful Technologies\Wonderful Technologies Application Plus Professional\6.6 SR6\ in your workspace. And it only takes 300 Mb per user! We stay committed to provide products that work now no matter what happened before they arrive, P.S. Regarding you question on why you can't print from Wonderful Technologies Application Plus Professional we're sorry to inform you update of the print library is not scheduled before the release of Wonderful Technologies Application Plus Professional Entreprise 7 first quarter of next year. That it works with the rest of the system is purely a fluke of your imagination and due to you system provider bundling an unstable untested printing backend too early. You're better of with the Obsolete Corp backend we provide now - it has been tested a full two days with my nephew's inkjet printer. Hopefully our app-on-cd system will take care of those regrettable incidents soon. In the meanwhile we advise you to buy an Expensive Systems LaserColourWriter 9000000000000 which are known to work with Wonderful Technologies Application Plus Professional (at least for the american models). They even come bundled with vouchers for other Wonderful Technologies great products ! P.P.S. If you can't afford an Expensive Systems LaserColourWriter 9000000000000 my nephew just wrote me we wants to sell its inkjet printer. JUST CALL ! -- Nicolas Mailhot
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