Angus Thinks

Month: July 2011

  • Xcode 4 – Great!

    Xcode 4 took a little while to get used to, but as I’ve been using it more, I’ve been liking it more.

    The change initially is significant, and there were new ways of doing things and certain other things that had to be rethought altogether. But now, I’m starting to choose to use Xcode 4 when I have the choice, so I think I’ve got used to it

    I recently released some new project files for Tesseract OCR cocoa, and they are built with Xcode 4 now. The simplification in the build system and the linking of the frameworks is a vast improvement. Workspaces are a gift to this type of multi-project build. 🙂

    The only issue I have is that it doesn’t support 10.5 or PPC, so SQLEditor is stuck on Xcode 3 for a while longer.

  • Lion Released

    Lion is released!

    Things seem to be going well. SQLEditor appears to work correctly.

    There is one identified issue which means that you cannot register the app for all users of a machine. Each user must register the app separately in their own account. (This is due to the /Library/Preferences directory now only being writable by root).

    This doesn’t affect Macs which are already registered. Administrators can also manually set the preference keys in the
    /Library/Prefererences/com.malcolmhardie.sqleditor.cocoa.plist
    file to register for all users.

    This problem will probably fixed by making the registration process separate and running it with higher permissions.

    HTMLValidator still needs some more work and isn’t currently compatible. A revised version is in the works and should be available soon.

    TesseractOCR seems to be working fine (and if you haven’t seen them, please check out the xcode 4 source release, it’s a big improvement)