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September, 2008

He Loves You Too Deux

Submitted by illogic-al on Sat, 09/20/2008 - 23:57

When last we spoke I left on a rather uncertain note. But will it work... I asked. The immediate answer to that query was No. It will not. Being far too persistent with these things I kept on working until the answer was Yes. I have defeated you, vile beast. Yes, dramatic. I know.

He Loves You Too

Submitted by illogic-al on Sat, 09/13/2008 - 11:43

Due to the overwhelmingly positive response towards the Amarok 2 packages for Leopard (10.5-intel) (i.e. no one was complaining about how much they sucked) I decided to take a stab at doing universal builds for Tiger (10.4). What would be good about these packages is that they would work for individuals with both powerpc and intel macs. They would also work for users with 10.4 or 10.5 installed, so being able to create them would be a win, win, win, win situation. Kill 4 birds with one stone if you will.

He Loves You

Submitted by illogic-al on Sun, 09/07/2008 - 12:30

What do you do after working on something for 16 hours? Take a break. A long break. For 4 hours on Friday and 12 straight hours on Saturday I was working on getting my installer package ready. The installer package in question had precious paylod: a beta version of Amarok 2. I finally got it in a state I was comfortable with and released it into the wild. It took quite a bit of work, far more than expected, to get the installer working to my satisfaction. There were some things which I required it to do, or not do, before I was comfortable with releasing it; things which I list below.

Make it so

Submitted by illogic-al on Thu, 09/04/2008 - 04:01

Make what so? OS X packages of course! This weekend (actually Labor Day for all us Yanks) a little rose pricked me and reminded me about those packages I was supposed to be making. The friendly poke gave me the activation energy needed to get over the hurdle and get the job started again. That's a little in-joke for the Chem geeks in attendance.