Noodlings

It’s here. A bunch of improvements and fixes, including the ability for rules to execute Automator workflows, AppleScript and shell scripts. Since this blog is a bit more developer oriented, maybe one of you out there can come up with some interesting scripts.

This release also incorporates Sparkle for software updates. In actuality, I’m using the Sparkle+ variant, though I’m not using the system profiling aspect of it. If any of you are developing a pref pane and want to incorporate Sparkle, feel free to drop me a line as you have to change a few things. Tom Harrington, who is the maintainer of Sparkle+ also has experience doing this but I’m not going to volunteer him for questions though if you join the Sparkle+ mailing list I’m sure he’ll answer them.

In short: Sparkle good. In retrospect, I should have included it from the beginning since you get problems when installing a pref pane over itself. I know that Objective-C can’t unload classes but you’d think that System Preferences would restart when this happens. It does detect it since it asks the user if they want to install over the old one.

At the risk of raising the ire of those Geico cavemen: Download. Buy. *grunt*