[Ti] 10.3.7 and Preview application...[OT]

[Chris Olson]

On Dec 16, 2004, at 12:31 PM, Chris Olson wrote:

> In this case, and the reason a reboot was required after the update, 
> is because the Quicktime framework was replaced, and portions of it 
> affect different applications.  Therefore the application that uses 
> the framework was updated, but it doesn't mean you're going to get a 
> new build.

And BTW - if you really need to see what got updated in this update, 
look at 
/System/Library/Frameworks/Quicktime.framework/Versions/A/Quicktime

That file will be dated the same as the day you installed the update.

Before people get all upset because they think Apple left something out 
of their update, you have to understand how Mac OS X applications are 
built.  You can look at the Quicktime framework as a library, but this 
is incorrect because it is more. OS X's object-oriented frameworks, 
including Quicktime, allow for development of full-featured 
applications in a fraction of the time they would need for procedural 
languages.  The OS X frameworks make use of core functionality 
contained in traditional C and C++ libraries brought forward from 
legacy application environments. So an OS X framework is a library 
container, but it can contain many types of libraries, their headers, 
and associated resources.

Updating a core framework, therefore, will update all applications that 
use it.  In this case, that includes Preview.

If you're not a developer, don't worry about it.  Just install the 
updates, and enjoy.  Then if something doesn't work, complain loudly.  
We'll get right on it :-)
--
Chris