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Updates for Jaguar Compatibility
Rob McKeever writes "I have just posted WirelessDriver 1.0.0b5.1 to both my iDisk (robm) and to the usual spot on SourceForge.net. This build has been compiled specifically for Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) and will not work on earlier versions of Mac OS X. There will be a separate version coming shortly to fill this void. The installer will fail the first time you try to do this; please try to run the installer at least once more before asking for assistance." Wonderful! The panic-on-reinsertion bug appears to be fixed too, making it much more useful, as I only need to use the PC Card when the internal card is out of range.
Also, SharePoints, for making arbitrary folders available via file sharing, was updated for 10.2 compatability. LiteSwitch X still isn't updated, but note that hot keys other than cmd-tab still work with the older version.
I'm reading the long time Mac users here whine on and on about little tiny issues of this or that feature. Do you have any idea how big a change it is to go from one system compiler to another? Its huge. Even with source and make (and therefore in theory no issues) Linux distributions that have made this switch lost months doing nothing but working out bugs. Apple has done an amazing job. (Look at Fink for example where there wasn't the direct support and the number of issues they are dealing with, and again they have source). As far as I can tell virtually everything ran, and a few system hacks are having problems -- of course OS extensions are going to have problems with a change of OS!
Or of course you could always "reverse switch" (i.e. the windows way) and have APIs that grow in a never ending fashion using different sets of system libraries, conflicting with one another having horrible problems communicating....