Ok, I’m presently chicken rather than Leopard. I can’t get my work done
without my development Mac, so I’ve been waiting patiently for you guys
to bring up and solve all of the problems before I go over to the Mac
store and cash my iPhone rebate in for Leopard.
What’s shaking? No sign of any problems. If everything is peachy on my
machine right now and I’m currently running Rails 1.2.3 with lighttpd
and using Textmate on Tiger for development, will everything still be
working well after the upgrade? No problems to solve? What about svnX?
Fugu? Anything wacky about Terminal in Leopard? MySQL Server?
CocoaMySql? Ancient Photoshop 7.0?(yeah, I know its old, but it still
works fine for making buttons and such)
Even for a Mac upgrade its hard to believe everything above will just
work.
Anybody find and solve any problems?
thanks,
jp
There were some mentioned in the past few days. The topic that comes
to mind right away is a freeimage / imagescience one. I followed the
instructions given at the end of that thread and it worked perfectly.
Terminal in Leopard is awesome, I love it.
Textmate is fine, I don’t use fugu, svn is built-in so I’m guessing
svnX will be ok, you have the CLI to fall back on if it is not. MySQL
is fine, although I don’t use CocoaMySQL.
Photoshop, haven’t traveled down that road yet.
So yea, I used my iPhone rebate to buy leopard, and I use my mac for
rails development (work) every day and I’m doing fine on leopard.
I ran into some issues with ruby 1.8.6 and a rails project (used
postgres). A lot of my tests where failing involving sql find orders.
Tried different versions of rails, postgres adapters, postgresql
versions and different locales. Only fix for me was installing ruby
1.8.5.
Also if you want to use ImageMagick and Mac Ports you’ll need to
install the tiff port first.
sudo port install tiff -macosx
Then install Image/R magick
I installed fresh on a new hard drive in my MBP, Leopard pulled all of
my apps / docs over from a usb external drive that had my 10.4 install
on it. If you choose the option to bring over all of your old files,
it will bring over your /usr/local as well. I was up and running
immediately after the upgrade including macports, imagemagick, rails,
ruby, etc. I run off my own rails / ruby stack out of /usr/local. YMMV
of course, but I have had a pleasurable experience so far.
I have noticed much improved battery life with Leopard. It was not bad
before, but I have gained an average of 30 - 45 minutes. I also notice
much better memory management. Good luck, it’s a killer upgrade!
-Bill
MySQL has some issues right now if you use the prefpane to start it…
by
which I mean it doesn’t start or stop the DB… you have to do it via
the
terminal.
Other than that, I’m doing fine with it. I am still using my own Ruby /
rails / SVN stack that I set up on Tiger tho.
On 2007-10-29 19:00:14 -0700, Jeff P.
[email protected] said:
No problems to solve? What about svnX?
Fugu? Anything wacky about Terminal in Leopard? MySQL Server?
CocoaMySql? Ancient Photoshop 7.0?(yeah, I know its old, but it still
works fine for making buttons and such)
Isn’t Photoshop 7 a Classic App?? I forget now, it was so long ago…
–Andrew V.
Gimp just released 2.4, but not sure if there is a universal binary out
yet. If not, there should be soon. I haven’t played with it yet, but
from what I read it is a pretty big overhaul.
-Bill
Andrew V. wrote:
On 2007-10-29 19:00:14 -0700, Jeff P.
[email protected] said:
No problems to solve? What about svnX?
Fugu? Anything wacky about Terminal in Leopard? MySQL Server?
CocoaMySql? Ancient Photoshop 7.0?(yeah, I know its old, but it still
works fine for making buttons and such)
Isn’t Photoshop 7 a Classic App?? I forget now, it was so long ago…
–Andrew V.
It depends on which definition of “Classic” you are using (to be very
Bill C.esue about it).
Not in the sense you mean, but it certainly is “Classic” in the sense
that it was back in the good old days before Adobe crammed a whole bunch
of useless crud onto the CD in hopes of justifying the ridiculous prices
they charge for CS these days.
Unfortunately, my fears were well founded. After the upgrade, it is not
working. I need to hunt down the install CD and try re-installing my
old PS before I give up on it, but it doesn’t look good. Guess I will
have to explore GIMP and the Google offering along this line (don’t
remember what its called).
Thanks to everyone who spoke up on this thread. Except for PS, it was
all completely trouble free, and I’m really enjoying “Spaces”.
thanks,
jp