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When will it be released? ... Feb 22
glynor:
--- Quote from: Matt on February 18, 2013, 02:59:07 pm ---but Theater View will require switching to OpenGL so won't happen for a while.
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No no. Just whip up an OpenGL wrapper for the entire DirectX API. That'd be more convenient for me, and then I could use it to run games too.
KThanxBye! ;) ;D
Rogerdn:
--- Quote from: pirogallo on February 19, 2013, 10:14:23 am ---I strongly hope that Snow Leopard will be included. on my macbook I can not install more.
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Ditto
glynor:
--- Quote from: glynor on February 19, 2013, 02:06:17 pm ---Whereas on Snow Leopard, it isn't completely and utterly broken (I did get it to play music), but I'd call it "unusable" currently.
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I should add... I'm not privy to the technical details of how much work it will be to get the problems with Snow Leopard fixed. They do seem to be mostly GUI and graphical in nature, not core functionality. But that could vary wildly from easy-peasy to bag-of-hurt. The issue with pinning it down is, I think, that they don't really know (for sure) either which it is.
In any case, they've been in "get it working at all" mode. Figure out how to make it work better in other cases is a later phase. Right now, if having Snow Leopard support is a dealbreaker, then don't click buy. We'll know more in a few weeks I expect.
I will be testing it on Snow Leopard. So we'll know the deal.
johnjen:
Thanks for the details.
I kinda figured this release would be 'iffy' and right now there are so many other more important things to worry about I wasn't holding my breath for 10.6.8.
So since I'm not in a hurry I'll wait and see how this plays out. And I'll prep a 10.7 boot volume on one of my spare partitions, just because.
JJ
--- Quote from: glynor on February 19, 2013, 02:06:17 pm ---I tested the pre-alpha they released over the weekend on 10.6.8 (despite them telling us "This requires 10.7+").
It is not completely broken. However, it is certainly WAY more rough on Snow Leopard than it is on Mountain Lion. There are quite a few additional UI glitches and graphical problems right now. I'd call the current pre-alpha "in the realm of usable" on Mountain Lion. By no means a complete product at this point, but "close". You can see the flag sticking out of the hole way up ahead, anyway. Whereas on Snow Leopard, it isn't completely and utterly broken (I did get it to play music), but I'd call it "unusable" currently.
I did not test Lion, though I'd expect that to be closer to ML than SL.
Now, I'd like to just reiterate...
I know there is a lot of excitement over this. That's great! However, please, please, please keep in mind:
When this comes on Friday-ish, this will be an ALPHA QUALITY RELEASE. That means:
1. Don't depend on it for day-to-day activities.
2. Large swaths of functionality will be broken or incomplete.
3. UI Design is NOT final (in any way - it currently looks essentially identical to the Windows version).*
4. It is going to change rapidly during development. They will PROBABLY make changes that will require you to reset your Library to defaults and start over at some point, and other stuff like that.
Consider it a "test release" that is fun to play with, and in a few months, you should have a nice (perhaps still Beta-quality) release that you should be able to actually use. Great, you got the early-bird deal and you got to help them craft a better product.
However, don't evaluate this build (or any others coming over the next few weeks/months) as "representative of the final product". Again, this is ALPHA. If you have never participated in a beta/alpha trial before, you may need to reset expectations.
* However, I did get Lucida Grande as my Standard View font.
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pirogallo:
--- Quote from: glynor on February 20, 2013, 01:11:10 am ---...
Right now, if having Snow Leopard support is a dealbreaker, then don't click buy.
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it's too late ... already did! ;D
--- Quote ---We'll know more in a few weeks I expect.
I will be testing it on Snow Leopard. So we'll know the deal.
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Thanks a lot.
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