Re: Procyon vs Seven Hills, why?

[bazyar@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar)]

bird@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (j.l.walters) writes:

>Those written with Apple's guidelines in mind do not.

  AWGS is written with Apple's guidelines in mind, and doesn't work well
in TM.

>A laudable idea. However, why do I have to take sides on this issue?
>I have both Seven Hills and GNO in my library. I'd really like BOTH to
>be my arsenal of GS/OS applications. In the best of all worlds we would
>see those non-Manager applications follow the rules (including Seven
>Hills' own Kangaroo).

  Mainly the issue is that both sets patch the toolbox in major ways,
especially GNO/Switchit and TM.  These patches are incompatible. I doubt
SHS would be willing to spend time to make their stuff compatible with
competing products, but you might ask them.

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