July 2011

The Lion. Tamed.

After a lot of fruitless screwing around with trying to get code running on remote servers using obsolete versions of the compiler, I have finally implemented a solution to the AstroPlanner vs. Lion problem (i.e. Mac OS X Lion only runs Intel-native apps. AstroPlanner V1 is PowerPC-only and hence doesn’t run. AstroPlanner V1 uses a proprietary database format that isn’t available to Intel Mac users, etc.).

Once again, Windows users and non-curious Mac users need not read further.

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Releasing the beast

Getting AstroPlanner V2.0 to the point that it can be released still seems like an insurmountable task. What is still to be done?

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Throwing AstroPlanner to the Lions

Windows-only users need not read further…

Crunch time is approaching more rapidly than I had predicted. i.e. AstroPlanner V2.0 is a week or three away from release, and so is Mac OS X 10.7 (a.k.a “Lion”). For Mac users of AstroPlanner, you could have a problem or two if Lion is released before AstroPlanner V2. What are these problems?

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