{"id":2672,"date":"2011-02-28T13:47:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T16:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2011-02-28T13:47:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T16:47:08","slug":"lion-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/28\/lion-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Lion is coming"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the new apartment<\/a> mostly ready (though the external\/common areas are still unfinished), a return to blogging and coding may now be possible.<\/p>\n

While I’ve pondered about the general direction that I wish to take my software, details are still a little unclear. Yes, the Mac App Store does figure in my plans for updating\/replacing XRay<\/a>, but System Preference panels are not accepted – so Quay<\/a> and Klicko<\/a> will continue being distributed over this website.<\/p>\n

The developer preview release of Mac OS X 10.7 \u201cLion\u201d<\/a> was a surprise to me. My expectation was that it would be released at (or just after) next June’s WWDC<\/a>, which I hadn’t planned to attend. I’ve just installed the Lion preview and had a fast look; it’s farther along than such previews usually are, and there are sufficient new UI details and API changes that I decided to study those first, before commiting to design details on my own software.<\/p>\n

A surprising amount of detail about Lion has already been published, NDAs notwithstanding, with only token sallies from Apple Legal. I’ve been somewhat out of touch with the developer community, so I can only speculate. Reducing the price of developer access to $99 – 20% of what it cost the last time around – may be a factor.<\/p>\n

One aspect which will impact me immediately is that PowerPC support over Rosetta will no longer be available<\/a>. There are some PowerPC apps I still use a lot: among them are Resorcerer, DMG Maker, Plain Clip, my own XRay, and – the one that’s open all the time – Eudora; as well as a bunch of utilities and games that I open very rarely. I suppose I’ll have to relegate them to my old Mac mini Core Solo, which – being a 32-bit machine – will also not be supported by Lion.<\/p>\n

The exception is Eudora; I’ve used it since 1.0b5 or thereabouts. I suppose I’ll finally have to try out the Eudora OSE<\/a> version; some fellow oldsters tell me it’s not too bad. None of the other email clients seem attractive, especially Apple’s Mail, which I actually tried out last year and didn’t like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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