What we want to do is to have a single framework, instead of 2. However, since the dialogue to prompt method right now isn't that great (and I'm not sure how it could be), then I'm leaning the other route of dropping.
However, if we can make the withinstaller portion better(erererer), then I don't see a problem with keeping that around. There are some thoughts here: http://code.google.com/p/growl/wiki/FutureOfTheGrowlInstallerFramework <http://code.google.com/p/growl/wiki/FutureOfTheGrowlInstallerFramework> Chris On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Roy Lovejoy <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd be more than happy to contribute, now that my shipping schedule has > relaxed a bit- > > We really like the feature, but it's a 'nice to have, if the user has > installed something already with Growl..' > > I wanted to escalate it to 'all users will enjoy the feature', but this > stood in the way.. > > I'll see what I can do.. :) > > > On Feb 25, 2011, at 7:13 PM, Christopher Forsythe wrote: > > No worries. :) > > We do need more hands though, in all reality we've gone from what seemed > like a huge team, to a very small team. The guys are doing a lot of good > work, but I'm almost to the point of considering dropping the Extras in > order to maintain some sort of better release schedule. > > That said, we're considering removing the -withinstaller framework. There > are pros and cons to doing that, it just comes down to a few things: > > - The installation isn't pretty. You get prompted for Growl installation, > along with something like 5 other windows on first/second/fifth launch of > some applications. This doesn't seem wholly awesome. > > - Evan supported it, but now he doesn't have time to do it. Nobody on the > dev team was as for this as Evan was. Which means there is no longer a > strong advocate for it. > > - The whole adobe/dropbox/other installing applications fiasco. This put > Growl into a bad light. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth, personally, about > installing Growl at all really. > > > There are some other minor points, but for GW-I to stick around, I think > that at least the first 2 items *have* to be addressed, and the third needs > to be mitigated in some way, if even possible. > > Chris > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Roy Lovejoy <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I apologize for my snit- it was unintentional- >> >> I was surprised that someone -did- find the area of the source where the >> problem was (1.2 vs 1.2.1) >> >> I should have said 'was this fix folded into a rev past 1.2.2'. >> >> 17 hour days & 7 days/week tend to wear on civility & I apologize. >> >> I'd be more than happy to contribute.. >> >> On Feb 25, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Christopher Forsythe wrote: >> >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:16 PM, pixeled <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> 7 months later, there's no movement on this crash??? >>> >>> >> We're more than happy to accept volunteers to help speed along the >> project. >> >> Chris >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Growl Discuss" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en. >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Growl Discuss" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en. >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Growl Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Growl Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
