Re: Ion on Mac -- status?

On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 01:25:04PM +0300, Henri Salo wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 11:01:51AM +0100, Samer Abdallah wrote:
> > I'm using an old version of ion3 (ion-3ds-20060317)
> > which I compiled from source on Mac OS 10.4 (PPC)
> > and it works just fine. Haven't tried any newer versions.
> 
> Update immediately.

Why on earth would you say that?

If it works for Samer then there's negligible value in upgrading at
all--it may fix some bugs/introduce new features, but it may also cause
some things to break that were working before.  If ion were something
like a filesystem or a database where it's correctness determined
whether it silently corrupted things then it would be a different
matter.  Upgrading to the latest version of ion only needs to be done
"immediately" if you're actually hitting a bug that may have been fixed
in a later version or you want the functionality provided by the later
version.

AFAIK, this is an early result from economics, the "cost" (in the case
of ion, your time/patience) of change is very rarely zero.  It helps to
explain a lot of behavior we see in the real world.

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  Sam  http://samason.me.uk/