On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Christopher Forsythe <[email protected]>wrote:
> Folks, > > We're working towards Growl 1.3. 10.7 is going to change things for us, and > as such here are the changes coming down the pipe: > > 1) Growl is going to be put into the Mac App Store. There are multiple > reasons for this: > - This is the trend that we're seeing across the OS X community > - This will make distribution much easier for us. One of the biggest > complaints that I am seeing on Twitter is people complaining about updating. > *We do listen.* > - This allows us to get rid of the Disk Image entirely. > - We can get rid of the PKG installer. > - We no longer have to maintain Sparkle. > - For most folks this will make Growl much easier to install and keep > Growl up to date. > - This move also leads to making Growl a much easier application to > find. > - There's more, but that's enough for this list. > > 2) Growl will become an application. This fits into the MAS rules more than > anything else we're doing. > > 3) Anything which does not go into the Mac App Store will be retired. We > already know that both GrowlMail and GrowlSafari no longer fit into this > category. I fully expect that GrowlTunes and HardwareGrowler will continue > in the Mac App Store. growlnotify should as well, but if it does not we'll > evaluate our options there. > > *Do not expect any further releases of GrowlMail or GrowlSafari*. This > is only in bold so that it's easier to see. This should not be unexpected to > those who use GrowlMail already, since most of you know that it breaks with > every Apple Mail update. That is simply not something we wish to keep up > with. Going to the Mac App Store for distribution seals the fate of anything > considered more or less a "hack". > > 4) Growl itself will become 10.7+. 10.6 and below will not be supported in > 1.3. 10.7 does not cost a lot of money and we feel that in the long run that > by supporting 10.6 and 10.7, it would be harder to push forward with Growl > development. > > - *Note*: The framework will not be 10.7+, it will support previous > frameworks so that Developers only need to include one framework. > One correction here. It will support previous OS X versions, not previous frameworks. Chris > > 5) Growl-WithInstaller.framework is going away. > > 6) We're changing the communication path to GNTP from NSDNC and DO. > Applications which continue to use DO or NSDNC will get a line in the > Console asking users to contact them to update their Growl framework. Since > there is no other real way to communicate this change to Application > Developers, we feel that this is the best way to inform them. If someone has > a better idea here, please let us know. > > > > All of these changes will take effect as soon as the mercurial repository > is put back up. We have a technical difficulty there, but it should be > resolved by Monday. > > Also, keep in mind that we are looking for more Developers, and that these > are not all of the changes coming. > > Feel free to reply here or to talk to us on irc on freenode at #growl. > > Chris > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
