[TxMt] Re: Rolling back to a previous version of TxMate

[Marc Chanliau]

Ok, my bad! I misread your workaround and mistook it for another workaround
that a mail lister provided before. Applying your workaround indeed
addresses my problem.
Thanks, and again, apologies.

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Allan Odgaard <mailinglist at textmate.org>wrote:

> On 13 Nov 2010, at 18:42, Marc Chanliau wrote:
>
> > I understand your workaround, I've used it before, but it defeats the
> > purpose of what I want to do (I can't send a program with the workaround
> in
> > it to a user that doesn't have TxMate!). I want to run Ruby programs with
> > keyboard input from within TxMate.
>
> I don’t follow. How does downgrading TextMate on *your system* change that
> the fix for interactive input is local?
>
> What exactly do you want to send to other users? If you want to send them
> TextMate, send them a copy of your version with the
> tm_interactive_input.dylib.
>
> > It used to work, then was broken, then worked again in build 1589. I
> upgraded to 1616 only to find out that that feature was broken again.
>
> The capability in question relies on injecting code into other software
> which alter behavior of lowlevel system functions.
>
> It took us some time to perfect it, but Snow Leopard set us back
> significantly.
>
> I decided to remove the injected library since it is causing lots of issues
> — expert users can still install it themselves, but should be aware of the
> compatibility problems with Snow Leopard.
>
> > Also, when you put out a new version you should mention what is broken in
> > that new version. I understand that these things (regressions) happen,
> but
> > it would be great to have a heads up so that one can choose to upgrade
> (or
> > not) based on that knowledge.
>
> As said, this feature is not directly in TextMate r1589 or removed from
> r1616, it is simply an *additional* file which you can add to r1616 — there
> is no point in downgrading to r1580 to get back this feature.
>
> But if you absolutely insist on doing it your way, then the old archive is
> here: http://download.macromates.com/TextMate_r1589.tbz — remember to then
> disable version checks in Preferences → Software Update.
>
>
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