Re: [B2-devel] Thoughts on SheepShaver and Basilisk II

[Robert M. <mr...@gm...>]

Oh yeah, the "mature" thing.

B2 and SS are "mature" in the sense that the features are complete:
you can run pretty nearly any MacOS software in the emulator. Back in
the 1980's, when these terms were being invented, that's about all
that "mature" ever really meant in a software project.

People also think "mature" should mean "finished", "up to date", or
even "stable", but it doesn't. Those are different words and you
should use them, along with qualifiers like "not" where appropriate.

It's okay that people don't agree on this. See the following
discussion, and you'll notice someone thinks "mature" means "not
bloated", while someone else says it means "does everything":

http://www.linkedin.com/answers/technology/software-development/TCH_SFT/823923-39777067

They can't all be right (-:

>> And SS is everything but mature. There is so much stuff that need fixed.
>> It crashed a lot, it needs updates to be more user friendly, more
>> compatible, more everything.
>
> These problems tend to result from large structural problems or design
> decisions (the memory management system and the choice to intercept
> specific Mac O.S. functionality rather than emulating the hardware) rather
> than from small bugs. The problems have never been sufficient, at least for
> me, to justify rewriting everything as would be necessary to correct those
> problems.
> [...]

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