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

[Hugh Hood <hughhood@earthlink.net>]

- 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.






Hugh Hood



in article CD9167E5.21992%hughhood@earthlink.net, Hugh Hood at
hughhood@earthlink.net wrote on 4/15/13 8:16 AM:

> Fellas,
> 
> Beta testing (big time thanks to Steven Nelson on this) has revealed an
> issue with the Spotlight metadata importer component of AppleIIWorks Envoy
> running on 64-bit kernel Mac OS X versions. My version 1.0.0 versions only
> had PPC and 32-bit Intel (i386) binaries, and it seems Spotlight on those
> systems needs more.
> 
> This has not affected the Finder Info component of AppleIIWorks Envoy,
> however. Also, it apparently hasn't caused any problems on 64-bit kernel
> systems, other than not providing metadata attributes (ProDos info and text
> content) of AppleWorks files to Spotlight.
> 
> Anyway, I'm working on a re-build with fat x86_64 binaries (or with the
> info.plist flag to run the plug-in under 32-bit) and will test again.
> 
> Since x86_64 builds with Tiger from Xcode 2.5 are somewhat limited, I may
> ask for a volunteer running a later version of Xcode (> 2.5) to build the
> importer component binaries for me from the Xcode project files. Any takers?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hugh Hood