Rudy said he was going to commit changes to his private repo until  
10.6.1 is out.

We're an open source project, any changes in any kind of release (beta  
or final) goes into a public repo.

I think you knee jerk replied without reading the thread, or  
understanding what I meant. Unfortunately for people like Laurent who  
have access and cannot get GrowlMail working, they either have to fix  
things themselves, or wait for us to fix it. The same is true for  
people who get the final release (i.e. everyone) of 10.6.1. The only  
difference is that the mere fact GrowlMail is broken in 10.6.1 means  
that something did change somewhere in the code that we have going.  
Meaning that Laurent, as a person who has access, and someone we can  
assume is under NDA since people not under NDA most likely have 10.6.1  
illegally, can't say what's hanged.

You didn't understand what I typed, which is understandable since I  
typically respond in very short sentences which are meant to be read  
as they are typed, and not interpretted. There is nothing that we can  
do about it until 10.6.1 is released. The same with snow leopard. But  
the day snow leopard came out, we had stuff committed to the repo  
about it, and were able to work publicly.

Our policy is to not piss apple off. Period. Our current stance is  
designed to do that. If apple wanted us to put out fixes for 10.6.1  
right away before it's released, they wouldn't make the betas of their  
updates nda. I understand the intention as you do with the pre- 
releases under nda, however for an open source project that puts us  
into a bind, because we can easily (or not so easily) break the nda,  
get people fired (people who are developers on open source projects on  
os x sometimes have access to select due to their employment), can get  
them sued, or could even get them into an agreement to no longer use a  
mac (apple settled a court case in this manner previously). We simply  
do not want to put ourselves into that position.

Feel free to comment, but I don't think this is an unreasonable stance  
for us to have Glen.

Chris

On Sep 4, 2009, at 6:51 PM, Glenn Rempe wrote:

>
> I would suggest a more careful reading of the Apple NDA for pre-
> release OS X software.  It is my understanding that developers who are
> in the program are allowed to discuss pre-release software with other
> registered developers (perhaps not in this public forum, but certainly
> over email).  In addition, IMHO I think it is Apple's explicit intent
> that developers are building software releases *before* public release
> of new OS software for testing purposes so that the software can be
> ready on release day.  There were *many* commercial software dev
> companies that released Snow Leopard compatible builds (perhaps as
> beta's), and promoted them as having 'fixes for Snow Leopard', prior
> to the official release of OS 10.6.  In fact it is in Apple's interest
> to have software ready to go on day one, and I believe one of the key
> reasons that developers were given *much* earlier access months before
> the release of SL than they were prior to 10.5 (which most devs only
> got access to on release day).
>
> All I'm saying is, as long as you are not releasing confidential Apple
> information provided to you under NDA, there should be no restrictions
> on builds and I think you may be err'ing too much on the side of
> caution.
>
> No?
>
> Cheers.
>
> On Sep 4, 3:15 pm, Chris Forsythe <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Sep 4, 2009, at 4:18 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Sep 4, 2009, at 12:54 , Peter Hosey wrote:
>>
>>>> On Sep 4, 2009, at 11:27:21, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
>>>>> Hello Peter.
>>
>>>> I'm not the only developer on this list, you know. ☺
>>
>>>>> Don't want to rush anything but any ETA on the 10.6.1 (Mail 4.1)
>>>>> compatible GrowlMail plugin? I'm guessing that one of those  
>>>>> strings
>>>>> in the Info.plist probably holds the key to the compatibility?
>>
>>>> Remember, 10.6.1 isn't out yet, so it's still under NDA.
>>
>>>> Depending on what the fix entails and when 10.6.1 arrives, we may
>>>> have
>>>> the fix out in a 1.2 beta (and then 1.2). If not, it'll probably be
>>>> 1.2.1.
>>
>>> Ouch!
>>
>> When you sign up for apple nda software, this is the price you
>> unfortunately pay, and the stance we must take. :)
>>
>> Chris
> >


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