Re: Ion on Mac -- status?

On 2 Sep 2009, at 12:28, [email protected] wrote:

> 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

Yes, my sentiments exactly - thank you. The version I have works
great for me and has no bugs I've come across. Even installing that
over a previous version I had meant I had to make a lot of changes
to my configuration scripts, which was fine and I'm not complaining
at all, but I see no reason to spend more time fussing over a window
manager even if it is the best window manager in the world. On
Debian I upgrade everything regularly because it is almost cost-free
(usually anyway) but I know from experience that compiling 3 years
worth of changes from source (and on Mac OS X) will probably not be.
I could do it - I'm not an idiot - but it's just not worth my time.

I do love ion, honestly :)

Samer.


> 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.
>
> -- 
>   Sam  http://samason.me.uk/