[TYPO3-dev] OT: Graphical CVS client for OS X?

[Kasper Skårhøj]

Thanks Dimitri for sharing your always strong views :-)

MS is no option for political reasons.
Linux is no option for application reasons (anymore).
I actually realize that if you want to do coding most of your time  
you might like Linux better. And the keyboard on Mac powerbooks sucks  
pretty much, at least in the beginning where you are constantly  
playing hide'n'seek with every special character you use in coding.

For me it has been like a walking in a desert missing Photoshop and  
lots of other mainstream applications. So pros and cons weighted  
against each other I am better off with the mac. I can feel that inside.

Finally; You are mentioning available applications as the reason for  
staying away. I mention applications as the reason to migrate. What  
we should truely fight is platform-lock-in because of application  
availability - then even Windows would be an option some day because  
you can _choose_ instead of being its prisoner.

That said: Mac has unmatched usability. They make computing easy,  
pleasant and effective. I find that my mental resources are freed to  
be spend on issues that matter. We could learn a lot from them for  
TYPO3.


- kasper


On Jan 10, 2006, at 13:44 , Dimitri Tarassenko wrote:

> On 1/10/06, Kasper Skårhøj <kasper2006 at typo3.com> wrote:
>
>> Until now I'm completely surprised of how well working OS X is, but
>> even more surprised why its not more popular. I want to buy one for
>> my father, mother, brothers, wife and friends (yes, who doesn't want
>> to be my friend now :-)
>
> And when you DO decide to buy and compare what $1K will get you in PC
> and Mac world - is when you get over it ;))) Been there, done that ;)
>
> You'll always be stuck with looking for stuff that works almost like
> real development tools available for PC/Linux. I switched to Mac for
> development about 2 years ago and spend about half a year struggling
> with it. There are tons of very useful development tools that are not
> available for Mac. To me, the deal breakers were Komodo, lack of any
> decent UML editor and EMS MySQL and PostGreSQL managers. What you'll
> find is either something you need to build through Fink (50/50 chances
> of it working properly) or Java based (will work a lot slower, since
> Mac Java is a lot slower than Intel-based).
>
> You said it right, Mac IS for your father and mother, maybe your
> brother (if all he does is Word & Excel), but not for you;))) Keep one
> on your desk and check if stuff works in Safari from time to time,
> though. It's great as CD/MP3 player and all Mac-crazy folks who visit
> you will think you are their friend ;)
>
> --
> Dimitri Tarassenko
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