APE can mess up Leopard upgrade

[LuKreme]

On 28-Oct-2007, at 18:50, Matthew Butch wrote:
> On Oct 28, 2007, at 17:26 , Andy Lee wrote:
>> Just saw this on Daring Fireball:
>>> More on this soon, but an important heads-up: If you’ve got APE  
>>> installed, you should upgrade to Leopard with a Clean Install or  
>>> Archive and Install, not an upgrade. People doing upgrades with  
>>> (apparently outdated versions of) APE installed are getting stuck  
>>> at a blue screen after the installation. Love the way Apple’s  
>>> support document puts quotes around “enhancement” when describing  
>>> what APE is.
>>>
>>> (My upgrade advice still stands — APE is the sort of “unholy  
>>> diddling with system software” that warrants a Clean Install.)

Or better yet, never installing it to begin with.

>>> Update: Unsanity’s Slava Karpenko has acknowledged the problem on  
>>> Unsanity’s weblog.
>> <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306857>
>>
> I had no problems when I upgraded to Leopard with APE installed. I  
> can't wait until they reactivate it.

Ew. ack. Ptooi!

Still the only time I have ever had BBEdit crash under OS X was when  
something stealth installed APE on my machine.  removed APE, BBEdit  
has never crashed since.  Dumbass claims this is BBEdit's fault.

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