Re: [Summary-Talk] Problems Restarting Summary

[John May <jmaymailing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>On 9/10/04 12:35 PM John May (jmaymailing@pointinspace.com) wrote:
>
>>Well, it's not Summary unexpectedly quitting - this is just on a
>>normal quit with no error message reported.
>
>That is really strange. Perhaps Summary has stopped responding because
>the Carbon network layer is frozen. If Carbon networking was frozen,
>Summary wouldn't be able to release the port. I have heard of that
>happening in other applications, though it has never happened to me.

So maybe switching to the CLI version for now would be a good solution.


>  >It's odd that Summary
>>gets hit by this too, as when FileMaker and EIMS quit unexpectedly,
>>they can be started right back up and go on serving.  Maybe they're
>>doing something to work around the issue?
>
>Summary is a Carbon application, so that it will be compatible with OS 9.
>The problem you are having is a bug in the Carbon application layer.
>Other kinds of applications wouldn't have this problem (Cocoa, BSD, etc),
>for example the command line version of Summary doesn't have this
>problem. Apple is no longer fixing bugs in Carbon, trying to force
>developers to drop support for OS 9.
>
>I have been trying to continue OS 9 support for as long as possible, but
>I am finally giving in and will soon be starting work on an OS X only GUI
>version of Summary that shouldn't have this problem, or any of the
>several others that the Mac GUI version of Summary runs into because it
>is a Carbon application.
>
>Jason


Sounds great.  Any approximate ETA?

	- John

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