On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Alastair McLeod <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On Mar 21, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Christopher Forsythe wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Alastair <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 1) Growl's website advises me to delay installation of Snow Leopard >> until Growl can catch up. Because I am a heavy user of iCal, the >> upgrade there (deadlined May 5) forced me to go to Snow Leopard. So: >> no more Growl Mail for now. Right? >> >> > Where did you see that? > > Chris > > > Here: > > http://growl.info/documentation/growlmail.php#growlmail-and-snow-leopard > Why does GrowlMail keep breaking under Snow Leopard? > Because Apple keeps breaking it. > Starting with Snow Leopard, Mail requires every Mail plug-in bundle to > explicitly state which versions of Mail and the behind-the-scenes Message > framework the plug-in is compatible with. This is not an “or later” test: > The plug-in must identify *every specific version* it is compatible with, > and if your versions of Mail and the Message framework are not on that list, > Mail will disable the plug-in and tell you to seek a version that is > (explicitly) compatible with your version of Mac OS X. > (You may have heard of this being an issue of “UUIDs”. These text strings > are how Mail identifies versions of itself and the Message framework, so > that is what we're talking about here.) > *As long as you run Mail with GrowlMail installed, we suggest that you > hold back on installing a new version of Mac OS X until we can test and > release a new version of GrowlMail with it, because this will probably > happen with every future Mac OS X update.* > This isn't specific to GrowlMail, by the way: It affects *all* Mail > plug-in bundles, so if you use any bundles other than GrowlMail, you will > also have to wait for their authors to release updates. > Am I not understanding this correctly? > > No. Essentially, every time there is a 10.6 update, they change Mail, and we have to change GrowlMail to keep up. Then GrowlMail will work fine until the next version of OS X. For instance, pretend you are on 10.6.8. When they put out 10.6.9, that will break GrowlMail until we put out an update. There are ways around this, the easiest being to just wait on updating the 10.6 update until all software (including GrowlMail) is confirmed to work on that. 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.
