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The Official Cache Out X Announcement
I’m very pleased and excited to be able to finally announce publicly that development of Cache Out X has been taken over by Christopher Thompson of TriLateral Systems.
Christopher has already hit the ground running with a new public beta which fixes some outstanding Tiger and Leopard related issues in the software. In addition to that, he’s taken over full hosting of all released versions for OS X versions 10.2 through 10.4 and beyond. You can consider him the goto guy for all things Cache Out X now.
As part of the hand off, Christopher was kind enough to outline his road map for COX over the next few months. I can honestly say that both Tom Neveu of NoName Scriptware (Cache Out X’s original papa) and I are excited to see what he has in store for the application.
So with this official passing of the torch, I’d like to extend a huge thanks to Christopher for being the guy to step in and keep the dev fire burning, to Tom Neveu for allowing me to take over COX to begin with, and to all the users who’ve been so supportive along the way.
Join me in wishing Christopher all the best as he breathes new life into Cache Out X.
Cache Out X Finds a New Home
I’ve been trying to hold off on this announcement for a while now in an effort to not steal too much thunder when the time came for the big announcement. But since I keep getting asked “When the heck is Cache Out X going to be updated?”, I have to say something.
The truth is, I just don’t have enough time to develop two applications in tandem, so I decided to put a call out for anyone interested in taking over development of the COX. I’m very happy to say that a very dedicated individual answered that call, and is working diligently as I write this blog post on getting a new version of the application out to the masses.
I won’t say who it is quite yet, because I don’t want everyone to start harassing him with “Where is it?” emails while he’s working so hard on it (not to mention that thunder thing). One thing is true: This person has a long-term plan for Cache Out X. Probably one far better than I would have come up with. Heck, his work might even eclipse mine on Yasu if I don’t get my kiester in gear real soon.
So there it is. Yes, Cache Out X is close to release. Once the day comes, I’ll post an announcement here with all the juicy details, and everything else that goes with passing the torch.
Not As Bad As We Thought
Some real good news…
I’ve been able to fully qualify Cache Out X for use on Leopard. There were no major path changes that affected the operation of that application. I do need to add a path for the removal of Safari history & cookies, but as it is, those paths are broken under Tiger as well — which is most likely due to changes in Safari 3. I’m also aware of some other browser paths (Opera) that aren’t right which I need to get around to fixing. Bottom line is; while there are a couple of long-standing broken paths, running Cache Out X on your Leopard install is okay to do. I’ll try to get an update out the door by early next week.
Yasu requires a very small change to how the daily, weekly & monthly scripts get run, but aside from that there’s nothing else that needs tweaking. I’ll be updating it either this evening, tomorrow or Friday at the latest (very busy week). In fact, if you wanted to run Yasu 2.1.1 on Leopard until I can get the new version done, it’s totally okay to do. The only thing that won’t work is the weekly cron script. The daily & monthly actually run okay.
There you have it. It’s okay to run Cache Out X and Yasu on Leopard - though a very minor update to Yasu is on the way to fix the weekly cron script from not running, and one on the way for COX to fix browser paths.
Any questions, be sure to use the forums to ask ‘em.
Yasu, Cache Out X, and Leopard
There’s a lot of speculation that Apple will be releasing their new operating system some time around the end of this month. That could put us just a little under two weeks from D-Day. Or should I say “L-Day.”
I’m positive many Mac users will be early adopters, and those who use Yasu and/or Cache Out X are no doubt wondering if either of the applications are going to be compatible with the new OS. Well, I have an answer for you… Sort of…
I don’t know.
Since I’m not a card-carrying, dues-paying Apple developer, I haven’t had the opportunity to get my grubby mits on the new OS to see what has or has not changed under the hood which would affect how my apps behave1. It could be that nothing has changed and everything will work fine. I’ll do a happy dance and post it to YouTube if that’s the case. However, experience has told me it’s not going to be that simple.
Chances are there will be some significant changes, as has been the case for my apps each time Apple has released a new major version of OS X. There could even be the outside chance that both apps will need to be completely rewritten. While I plan to do that eventually, if I had to do it just for Leopard compatibility, it would probably take a while before it got done.
So my advice is this; If you plan to install Leopard, don’t run Yasu or Cache Out X on it until I am able to fully qualify the app for the new version of the OS. If you do, and catastrophic things happen to your computer — well — all I can say is, don’t say I didn’t tell you so.
- Well, I could have. But why run the risk of Apple legal hunting me down like a dog for grabbing something off of BitTorrent? No way. ↩
Yasu Nears Release
I’m almost finished with all the updates I plan to make on Yasu. All I have to do is tweak the reboot code a little, and then do a line by line scan of the main script file to be sure I’ve not borked something along the way. I should be able to have it all wrapped up by Sunday. If things go well, I’ll be releasing Yasu 2.1 to the Mac world on Monday Tuesday or Wednesday morning.
I plan for this to be the last of the 2.x branch. Once it’s out the door, I’ll (finally) make the minor updates to Cache Out X that it needs, and release it as a final 4.8. Thanks to all the COX users who have been so patient waiting for me to get to this.
Then, I’ll be starting from scratch on a new, totally revamped version of both apps. Since Leopard is just around the corner, there probably won’t be much coding done until I can get my hands on it. In the mean time, I’ll be focusing on really mapping out what the new versions are going to be. Trust me, you’re going to dig it. Big plans for the future, big plans…
