On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Richard L. Hamilton <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On Mar 18, 2011, at 9:50 AM, Chris Forsythe wrote: > > On Mar 17, 2011, at 5:10 PM, "Richard L. Hamilton" <[email protected]> > wrote: > [...] > >> But apparently nobody has ever tried to get permission to use them, > >> or they were refused if they did, because from what I've observed here, > >> the practice remains to treat those UUIDs from pre-releases as if > >> they were proprietary information. > > > > I honestly have better things to do than fight apple legal. > > > > Chris > > Not saying you, or any particular person, should have to. Only > saying that the results might be useful, not that they'd be so > useful as to be worth any particular person's time or frustration. > > OTOH, having a shorter lag between a public OS update and > GrowlMail working with it would certainly reduce _user_ frustration > and probably save some of your time responding to same. A GUI UUID > updater (already mentioned as being under consideration or in the works) > friendlier than the command-line one I posted should be > a reasonable stopgap, I suppose; sorry I know almost no Cocoa/ObjC yet or > I'd have done a pretty one instead. > > Or people who are beta testing operating systems actually understanding what they are getting into. Or people updating their OS the hour after it's released understanding what they are getting into. Those would actually be the best solutions. It's unfortunate that most people don't understand that when they use a new bit of software, that sometimes it just isn't going to all work right out of the box. 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.
