Re: AppleIIWorks Envoy for Mac OS X - Requesting Beta Testers

[Hugh Hood <hughhood@earthlink.net>]

- Update on the next beta version of AppleIIWorks Envoy for Mac OS X -


Ok, the Spotlight Metadata importer component has been re-coded to fix the
Sandbox problem that occurred with version 1.0.0 of the importer under Mac
OS X 10.6/10.7/10.8. The new importer has been working well without issue.

As soon as I build a new universal binary that includes 64-bit x86_64
support I will post the link here for my patient beta testers. It will be
version 1.0.1.

In order to make a 'one-size-fits-all-OS's-and-architectures' app I've had
to learn much, much more about conditional Xcode settings for arch, sdk, and
deployment targets than I had initially imagined.

Oh well ...




Hugh Hood





in article CDA89A2E.B87D%hughhood@earthlink.net, Hugh Hood at
hughhood@earthlink.net wrote on 5/2/13 10:33 PM:

> - delay on the next beta version of AppleIIWorks Envoy for Mac OS X -
> 
> 
> I've run into another snag on the next beta version of the Spotlight
> Metadata Importer for AppleWorks (Apple II) Word Processor files, I'm
> afraid.
> 
> It appears that the chief problem isn't 32 bit vs. 64 bit binaries, as I had
> previously thought. Besides, I've got that one handled now by building 4-way
> with Xcode 3.x on a post-Tiger system.
> 
> No, the Sandbox is the real issue. To extract the text content of AppleWorks
> Word Processor files, I used Andy McFadden's command line utility awp2txt
> running from the Spotlight plugin under NSTask. -- works great in Tiger,
> which predates the Sandbox, and not at all in Mountain Lion. There are some
> hacks to allow this behavior in the mdworker Sandbox, but that's not really
> kosher, nor user friendly.
> 
> So, I'm re-writing the Spotlight importer component of AppleIIWorks Envoy to
> include Andy's extraction routine code in the main plugin rather than
> calling on it to work as an external command with the results piped back.
> 
> Anyway, as Arnold once said, "I'll be back ..."
> 
> I do appreciate the patience of my testers. Please bear with me.
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> Hugh Hood
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