Posted by matt, Fri Dec 28 06:36:00 UTC 2007

So development of The Unbound Word has progressed to a stage whereby it is almost ready for an alpha release. Though there is still one task left to go.

That task is growl notifications. This may be a rather trivial task, though unfortunately as The Unbound Word uses garbage collection, growl notifications are a no go. This is simply due to the growl.framework not being compiled with -fobjc-gc or -fobj-gc-only.

Though growl.framework can be recompiled to use -fobjc-gc or -fobjc-gc-only, the default notifications aren't picked up by growl. This makes me sad, though as I'm not involved in the development or maintinance of growl I have no right to complain. This does though leave me at the mercy of the growl developers to some extent with what features I want available in the alpha release.

Things are still looking up for an early January release which makes up for it to some extent.

God bless,

Matt

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