On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Dylan Ryan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just my 2 cents. I also more or less only use growl because of growl-mail. > Sure it's nice to get other notifications, but without growl-mail, I'd > rather not have one more app running even if it is a very minor resource > user. i.e. Growl Mail is the only thing that KEEPS me using Growl. Other > things are nice but I can live without. > GrowlMail source is freely available, you may maintain it on your own. > > What kind of work goes into maintaining growl-mail? I'd be willing to > donate my time to keeping it up to date, but I am not the greatest coder in > the world (though I learn quickly). Every time a new OS update comes out, I > install it day 1, and I've always just manually added the new bundle-id to > the old version of GrowlMail's .plist and it has always worked for me on > both 32 and 64-bit intel machines, so (at least so far) no major changes > have been *necessary* that I've seen. If it's just adding the new IDs and > (possibly many) minor internal changes (and rebuilds), I can do that no > problem (I have access to a 64-bit intel MBP that I always keep up-to-date, > a 32-bit intel MBP that I can either keep up-to-date or lag a version if > needed, and PPC machines on Tiger as well, so I can test on a fairly wide > spectrum of hardware and software). > > Can you give us more info on what the changes it typically requires are? > Check the release notes and tickets, those are the best things to look at. > If I think I can handle it, I'll take full responsibility for getting > things done promptly and keeping it alive for as long as I can. (In all > likelihood, I'll just be building my own versions from source if it dies > anyway, so I may as well help the project out instead of being selfish about > it). > > The problem is that then GrowlMail becomes the only thing we ship that is still a distraction. In four months say you don't want to do this anymore, then we have to kill it yet again. > I am less interested in handling Growl-Safari, as I personally do not use > it much and given what you just said, it sounds beyond my ability. Though as > long as it *isn't* a major headache, I can handle minor changes to it > (that is, I am willing to keep it alive for as long as my skill allows me > to, if people are interested). > > > I'd say take on what you like. We haven't sent the official email about the details of GrowlMail being retired yet, please wait for that first. Chris > Dylan > > > On Jul 7, 2011, at 12:03 AM, Peter Hosey wrote: > > On Jul 7, 2011, at 00:00:09, ravedog wrote: > > What is the logic behind killing GrowlMail and Growl Safari other than they > are plugins for Apple apps. DO you have to kill them to gain entrance into > the store? > > > Growl could get into the store regardless of whether we kill GrowlMail and > GrowlSafari. > > GrowlMail has been a terrible support burden, as much work to maintain as > all of our other products combined. GrowlSafari is fragile internally, so > while it hasn't caused us many headaches *yet*, it's only a matter of time. > > So, we're killing both of them. This will free up the time we'll need to > make all the necessary changes to Growl and leave us plenty of time in the > future to maintain all of our surviving products. > > Also, will it still be fully AppleScriptable and have the same dictionary? > > > That's the plan. > > -- > 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. > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
