Comments on: On Parsing Version Information

By: brad

brad — Sat, 12 May 2007 02:33:21 +0000

When checking for updates, I get a long delay at the end of the progress bar. It says:
81 of 82 apps checked
Apple updates (100% done)…
And the progress bar is almost full. There is a delay of a minute or so (I haven’t timed it), without any indication that things are still happening.
It does complete ok, but this pause is confusing/concerning.

By: sporobolus

sporobolus — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 18:26:47 +0000

unfortunately “Report as broken” is also broken for me ;?> — i get “Please wait…” and a motionless progress bar for several minutes; it’s a good feature, though; for clarity, i’d suggest wording it “Report application version problem”; for convenience, i’d suggest making it a contextual menu item on individual app rows

By: sporobolus

sporobolus — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 18:20:46 +0000

after clicking Upload, the page hangs in Safari with about 1/10 of a progress bar in the address field — should i assume it has uploaded?

By: mawa

mawa — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 04:15:22 +0000

Done.

Consider me your greatest fan, btw.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:42:23 +0000

Done.

Waiting patiently for Preview 4

By: Jonas Witt

Jonas Witt — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 06:04:47 +0000

Has been fixed, sorry.

By: Nobody in particular

Nobody in particular — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:59:30 +0000

Jonas, I want to congratulate you on an excellent program and an excellent command of English! If only all German software engineers were like you…

By: Greg Peterson

Greg Peterson — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:25:55 +0000

Hey Jonas,

It’s me, the guy who was whining about having this app idea before you . I just want to reiterate that my little gripe is nothing personal. I’ve uploaded my app info via your little tool and would like to take any future opportunities to assist in the development of this application. I’m glad that you’ve got it implemented better than I probably ever would have (having near no application coding experience whatsoever), and I would love nothing more than to see this app grow into something really great. So, please keep me posted, if you will, of any opportunities I have of testing builds, etc. to help with the development beyond the obvious suggesting of ideas and such, which I will try to do. I can’t help with programing though, unfortunately.

Thanks.

-Greg

By: John

John — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:51:02 +0000

I know this is just a quick tool, but me running it’s not going to be very useful to you — I put most of my apps into ~/Applications, not /Applications. From what I can see of the resulting .plist file, you only look for apps in the latter directory.

By: Ricky

Ricky — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:07:27 +0000

Could you please provide a PPC version of your “small tool?” It won’t run on my G5 iMac.