net framework installed separately and all the programs that require framework use the same version. Now with framework there are many programs that use this platform, so it makes sense to have say the latest version of the. I suspect that Mono Framework is something similar to the Microsoft. Without getting into a Windows/Mac debate I think that it would be better to separate the accounting program from the Mono Framework. I thought that was the Manager philosophy anyway. (I don’t have outrageously fast broadband capability, and it still only takes a few seconds.) I have no desire to plunge back into that world, even if it makes the Manager disk image download a little quicker. No one thought anything of constantly requiring you to update drivers, add third-party apps for something as simple as generating a PDF, or asking you to wrestle with arcane IT trivia. You had to be an IT expert, or have access to one, to keep a laptop running in a geographically distributed company, even if you only used the Office application suite. One of the reasons I use a Mac is that I constantly encountered situations like that in the Windows world.
I would have viewed Manager as a half-baked product. But had I been told I had to do that when I first adopted Manager, I would have chosen a different package. I know I’d eventually get it right, and perhaps learn something interesting in the process. The idea of having to download and install something else before you can install and open Manager seems a great disservice to a great many people. But there are also many who are clearly barely functional. Granted, there appear to be many users for whom removing an essential element from the installation and adding standalone preparation and maintenance tasks would seem simple. I would not want to get into what appears like a formidable software installation and maintenance routine just to do my accounting.
My head hurts just from reading a summary on Wikipedia. Having looked up a little about Mono, I’d like to put my oar in the water on this idea of removing Mono from the standard download bundle, if that’s the right term, for Mac OS X.
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