From: Mark Hubbart <discordantus@...>
Date: 2005-02-15T10:47:38+09:00
Subject: Re: (OT) Programmer's editors for the Mac

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 05:22:41 +0900, Tim Ferrell
<Tim.Ferrell@s0nspark.com> wrote:
> Another option would be Slickedit http://www.slickedit.com ...


GAH!  A word of warning: since I've heard many nice things about
slickedit in the past, and didn't realize they had a mac version, I
decided to install the trial version and check it out.

Problems:

1. Before downloading, they require full name, location, and phone number (!!!)
2. The installer package (which, on a mac, usually just dumps the
files where they belong) extracts an archive in the root directory,
then uses a post-flight script to *slowly* unpack 90-some megs of
files and place them manually.
3. Without notifying you before-hand what it's going to do, it
apparently attempts to dump files in system directories like /bin.
4. And after all that concern and time taken, it refuses to work. Yay.

Now, if I can only find an uninstaller... Maybe one that's not as
crappy as the installer.

Hopefully in future versions they will have worked the bugs out.

cheers,
Mark