Dear WeatherCat AppleScript fans,
Steve has now been using my new and improved AppleScripts for over 10 days and obviously - he lived through it!
I've caught a few more bugs, but the main code project I had before me now seems hopeless. After checking around a bit, it sure seems like trying to make these AppleScripts available in other languages is hopeless. The translation framework can handle text, but it cannot handle numbers properly. The tools that can do this are only accessible from Xcode. So I'm staring at that hurdle before translations become practical.
So the one thing that is standing in the way of releasing these AppleScript is - documentation. Alas, as you all know, my documentation is . . . .
lengthy. Revising all of that is going to take a while. In the meantime what is out there is getting seriously obsolete.
So I'm trying to gauge . . . . exactly how
bold and reckless are users of my AppleScripts right now?
Steve was able to figure out how the new installation scheme worked with the barest of a Quickstart document. I have learned from his pain and beefed up that. I've also added some additional comments in places like the preference files to help folks get their heads around the new scheme.
So if there was a
lot of itchin' for these new scripts I could release them without proper documentation as WeatherCat first showed up to the private beta testers. The trouble is I don't know who has tried them before and who hasn't. If folks get into a lot of trouble, I could end up spending a lot of time providing comments on the forum instead of revising the documentation. Effectively making something late - even later!
What's the opinion of the AppleScript using faithful? Are folks doing fine with things as is, or is there a real
itch?Cheers, Edouard