Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update"
Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update"
- Subject: Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update"
- From: Kevin Ballard <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:19:40 -0500
It seems cool, but there's a few things I noticed right off the bat:
1) When selecting an app, there's 2 extra linebreaks at the end of the
info, causing that pane to have an active scrollbar with no content
beyond the visible area
2) It scans *really* slowly. Because it needs the MacPAD.url file, it
can only work with .app applications. While it was scanning my
/Applications folder I opened the terminal and did a cd /Applications
and find . -name '*.app' and it found all the applications in that
folder in a fraction of the time Shovel spent. In fact, it found all
the applications in the folder in the amount of time it took Shovel to
parse the Adobe applications and the CodeWarrior folder (since those
have tons of files in them).
3) While it was searching, I pressed Mark All and the application froze
I haven't even had a chance yet to see how it behaves with applications
that use MacPAD (I only know of one on my computer, which is the one I
wrote (Rendezvous Browser)) because of problems 2 and 3. I highly
suggest either actually using the find command or optimizing your
search routine to be as fast, because currently it takes like 30
seconds just to find Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe ImageReady CS, and
Adobe Photoshop CS (the first 3 applications it finds). and another 20
seconds just parsing the rest of the files in the Photoshop folder to
figure out there's nothing there.
BTW, since you're using MacPAD, presumably you're using the cocoasdk
code I wrote. If you haven't upgraded to the version I just released, I
suggest you do so, because it fixes a problem where the main thread
hangs if it can't connect to the MacPAD URL (until it times out, that
is). Of course, it also boosts the version requirements to OS 10.2 (I
*believe* cocoasdk supported older versions before that), but I doubt
many people are still stuck with 10.1 (or, god forbid, 10.0)
On Mar 24, 2004, at 2:51 PM, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
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I'm happy to announce Shovel, a "Software Update" clone for third
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parties.
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Shovel scans the user's hard disk for non-Apple applications and then
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checks for new versions of these applications, and optionally
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downloads the updates and installs them.
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This works by using the MacPAD file format: Developers upload a
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MacPAD file (a .plist file) to their web server, and put a file named
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"MacPAD.url" that contains the URL of that file in their application's
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"Resources" folder.
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MacPAD files can also be used for submitting your application to
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<http://www.macshareware.net>. For more information on MacPAD, see
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<http://www.macshareware.net/sdk.html>.
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To get Shovel and try it out, point your browser at:
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<http://www.zathras.de/programming/my_applications.php>
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Note that this is a preview version of Shovel to solicit feedback from
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developers and to encourage developers to adopt MacPAD as a standard.
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Let me know your thoughts!
--
Kevin Ballard
email@hidden
http://www.tildesoft.com
http://kevin.sb.org
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