Sweet16 plans

[Sheppy <the.sheppy@gmail.com>]

So Apple released Snow Leopard, and while Sweet16 works great on it,
there is one hitch:

Snow Leopard no longer lets you write to HFS disks and disk images.

This is only a problem because the most convenient way, at present, to
get files into Sweet16 from your Mac is to use an HFS disk image.
Mount it on the Mac, copy files to it, eject it, mount it on the GS.
Under Snow Leopard, this is no longer an option.

Because of this, my next Sweet16 release, version 2.2, will introduce
a way to drag and drop files from the Mac into the GS. It won't
necessarily be beautiful, because I need to get it done in a hurry
because until then, Sweet16 is a little frustrating on Snow
Leopard. :)

The next major thing I'm tentatively planning to do is to redo the
user interface in Cocoa. When I do that, I plan to drop support for
Mac OS X 10.4, and start requiring either 10.5 or 10.6. This version
will, however, still support PowerPC systems. I expect that to be the
last major version that doesn't require an Intel processor (although
there may be some minor updates before that change happens).

This stuff outlined here will take a while. The 2.2 version with the
file drag and drop feature, I'm going to try to get out the door very
quickly for obvious reasons. I intend to start work on that tomorrow,
after giving folks a couple of days using 2.1.3, so that I can be
reasonably sure nobody's going to find an emergency bug that needs to
be fixed right away -- since once I start working on 2.2, there won't
be another release until that's finished.

I'm glad people are pleased with the progress in Sweet16. I know
version 2 took a long time to get out the door in final form; mostly
because of the combination of real life being very busy but also the
work that I needed to do on it not being much fun. Things are looking
better now.

Sheppy