What's it all about, Alfie?

Bjorn posted a note saying that he had a build of MacVim that was 32-bit on Snow Leopard only. He hasn't had time to handle the regular packaging and he hasn't even run a lot of tests, but he says it's the build he's using on Snow Leopard, and that's good enough for now. It's going to have to be.

Well, one of the two biggies for me seems to have a stable beta - Dropbox has tweeted that 0.7.15 should be the answer to Snow Leopard compatibility and they want a little help testing it. Fair enough, I can do that.

I'm hoping that we see something from Growl today too... a beta is OK, but a release is better.

While it's not explicitly stated in the release notes, there's a new release of the fantastic IRC client - Colloquy, out. Version 2.3 has over 60 bug fixes and should be ready for Snow Leopard, but we'll have to wait and see.

Today I started adding several new fields to an application that is targeted for a re-write, but we still need to get many more miles out of it before that point in time. The problem is, it's very brittle in the sense that I'm still not sure what touches what within the code. Sure, I'm getting closer to having a good understanding, but this level of change makes me more than a little nervous.

Still... if I take it slow, and make sure I make all the changes in the interfaces, and the factories, and the classes and the output, I should be able to get this done in one pass. That's my goal anyway.

It's not exactly clear what the problems might be with Adium 1.3.x on Snow Leopard, but in case it's really bad, there is a 1.4 beta that's available for Snow Leopard. It too, has issues with the font rendering, it seems, but maybe that's not so bad, given the problems 1.3.x might have. Too early to tell, but if I upgrade to Snow Leopard, and Adium 1.3.x is unusable, I have an option.

UPDATE: this compatibility list says that Adium 1.3.6 is OK for Snow Leopard - good to know.

I noticed that ZeusDraw was updated to 1.3.3, but that it's still not Snow Leopard ready. Something about the resolution of saving an image. The update is scheduled for net week, and I can wait for that as I don't use ZeusDraw all that much.

Not surprising, as I go through the compiled lists of Snow Leopard compatibilities, I find that OsiriX has upgraded to 3.6 and is now Snow Leopard compatible. Nice. What remains to be a little puzzling is the fact that they give out a 32-bit version of the program and not a 64-bit version. Yet all the code is GPL. So, presumably, it's just a matter of compiling it.

Now I'm not that stuck on 64-bit land, as there will certainly be things that remain 32-bit for a while, but it's odd that they don't ship the 64-bit as free to show off Snow Leopard. Maybe it's still a revenue source for them. If so, good enough.

OK, they have been working on it, and it's not a release, but a beta of Growl for Snow Leopard - 1.2b1 is available from the Google Code site for Growl. I'm not sure I'm going to grab it yet - I still have time before I need it as I won't be able to get to the update for another few days, but it's nice to know it's there should I find the time sooner than I expect.