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iRoster 1.0b12

schwa — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 17:20:48 +0000

Another year, another iRoster release.

You thought development on iRoster was dead. Think again! This version adds more features than ever before and fixes more bugs then you would believe.

Well – actually it runs on 10.4 now and the preferences all work now I think.

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iRoster

schwa — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 02:56:47 +0000

What is iRoster?

iRoster is a small and convenient tool for finding and connecting to Rendezvous enabled services on your network such as web servers, Apple File Sharing (AFP) servers, and others.

iRoster provides easy access to Rendezvous services on your network from a menu accessible within its dock icon (or from the menubar). iRoster can also advertise other services on your computer that may not yet work with Rendezvous. iRoster can also attach AppleScripts to Rendezvous services. This will allow you to visit the service’s URL or launch and control applications.

Requirements

Mac OS X 10.2 (“Jaguar”) or higher. iRoster will not run on earlier versions of Mac OS X. Other Rendezvous enabled devices on your local network (optional, but highly recommended!).

iRoster 1.0b11 Saves the Day

schwa — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 23:21:45 +0000

Turns out that one of iRoster’s embedded frameworks was left linking to libSaturn (part of CHUD). Anyone without CHUD installed (i.e. most non-developers) will not have been able to launch iRoster. I’ve fixed it and posted a new version. There are no differences between 1.0b11 and 1.0b10 beyond this one fix.

That’ll teach me for testing iRoster on boxes I also do development on.

iRoster 1.0b10 Released

schwa — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 20:47:21 +0000

After nine months iRoster 1.0b10 is finally available.

Bug fix and general spring cleaning release.

iRoster now supports over 170 Rendezvous services.
A simple browser window has been added to iRoster.
Browsing and publishing of services can now be controlled via the Rendezvous Menu.

If you were running previous versions of iRoster then your preferences will have been reset. This due to a major change in the preferences file structure. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Full Change List:

[Fix] Fixed bug that was preventing iRoster from finding services under 10.3 (and possibly 10.2) if the user had not entered an email address into an InternetConfig supporting application. (#IR014)
[Fix] Big clean up of iRoster’s support frameworks.
[Feature] iRoster probably won’t run under 10.2 anymore. Not sure there’s much I can do about that – but with 10.4 just around the corner I’m not going to lose sleep.
[Fix] Updated build system for subversion.
[Fix] Updated for for Panther 10.3.5
[Fix] Updated for XCode 1.5
[Fix] Updated for G5 and AlBooks rev/2
[Fix] Updated preferences dialog. Should now be a lot easier to use.
[Fix] Updated default list of services.
[Fix] Updated packaging script to use subversion instead of cvs.
[Misc] Now requires Mac OS 10.3 (“Panther”) or higher.
[Feature] Added ability to turn advertising and browsing on and off from the Rendezvous menu.
[Fix] Fixed bug with version check dates.
[Feature] Added support for over 170 Rendezous services.
[Feature] Added experimental browser window (see the Window menu).
[Fix] Removed speech synth (“Announce”) script from all default services.

Googling for iRoster

schwa — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 06:48:05 +0000

I googled for iRoster just now because I’m a little bit bored. Boy did I get a weird hit. Just over two weeks ago someone decided to turn the iRoster icon into a wallpaper for KDE. Um ok. It sure is a purty icon (thanks to http://iconizer.com/) but I’m not sure even I would want it as my desktop picture.

That reminds me – a new release of iRoster will be made available this weekend – some pretty major changes have been made.

Rawr-endezvous iRoster Clone

schwa — Sun, 19 Sep 2004 05:50:47 +0000

Rawr-endezvous is another Rendezvous menu in the dock program just like iRoster! (Also mentioned in passing on the Tao of Mac blog).

What’s happening?

schwa — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:26:37 +0000

iRoster hasn’t been updated since December. Well I should say I haven’t released an update since December. I have made a lot of changes to the underlying source code, some changes specific to iRoster and some to the supporting Toxic frameworks. I might spend some time preparing the current iRoster source code for release. Or I might not. People are still using iRoster (based on the version checking logs that I keep) so who knows? If you’re interested in continued iRoster releases drop me an email (or comment in this blog – I dare ya!)

Geode development has changed. Geode is now becoming two programs – only one of which resembles my original design for Geode (more or less). Yes it’s still vapourware for now but I do work on it when I can. I can’t say more right now though. Keep watching this space (both of you).

iRoster 1.0?

schwa — Tue, 23 Dec 2003 19:22:23 +0000

Will iRoster ever become a 1.0 product? Probably not. Will there be more beta versions? Maybe.

If you use iRoster and happy with it (and want it to leave beta) let me know! Either leave a comment in the blog or send me an email (see the contract page). Let me know your thoughts.

However I’m currently considering a rewrite of iRoster that will add a tonne of new features. This version (lets call it iRoster 2 for now) would be 10.3 and up only and would have a bunch of new features that turn iRoster into something pretty nifty!

New iRoster Version

schwa — Tue, 23 Dec 2003 19:20:43 +0000

Version 1.0b9 of iRoster is out. Yes another beta. It runs on Panther now.

Why the delay? The main reason was I was waiting for Apple to release XCode 1.1. XCode 1.0 had a bunch of bugs (esp. in the command line ‘xcodebuild’ tool) that was really preventing me from creating a reproducable build. iRoster has been working on Panther for some time but I wasn’t happy releasing this version until my build system was working again.

iRoster expiration?

schwa — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 20:13:13 +0000

Yes. The expiration has yet again hit iRoster. iRoster 1.0b8 expired on Sept. 30th and no new version has been uploaded. The reason why is that I’m testing a new version on Panther. Sorry for the inconvenience.