Re: Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 5 Developer Preview (9M3092)

--On 30. Juli 2009 10:17:50 +0200 Hendrik Schreiber <hs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I think a lot more people would be willing to "take the leap" to a
> > preview release if there was some kind of rollback/uninstall
> > mechanism that could restore the previous version of Java.
>
> [...]
>
> I second that.
> Too often I read on this list about some extra special steps that need to
> be taken to get to a normal state again after having installed a dev
> preview. I simply can't afford to mess up my main dev system.

I can't believe this is brought up again and again! You've been told many 
times *how easy* it is to test *without* "messing up your main dev system"! 
All you need is another partition, or better another (external?) hard 
drive. Then you simply clone your main partition to the secondary one 
(using Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper!), boot off the secondary 
partition, install the preview and test. Afterwards you boot your regular 
system, no harm done. Of course Windows can't do that. So I suppose you all 
got so fixated on Windows' shortcomings that you can't wrap your mind 
around the fact the Mac OS is *different*. Please try it, it's really 
simple.

I agree that some kind of rollback would be nice as well (that's not as 
easy to do right as you think it is), but this incessant whining is 
ridiculous.
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