Hi Alex,
Thanks for the kind words. I know AEB's off to a hopeful start: I've
been using appscript professionally for high-end automation for
years[1], and hundreds (thousands?) of other appscript users have beaten
the tar out of it over the years too, so the design has already proven
itself. OTOH, there's a *lot* of roughness in the packaging and
presentation - my Swift/ObjC/Xcode-fu sucks so it could really do with a
more experienced hand on that side. And it's based on objc-appscript
which was always the least polished and tested of the old appscript
bridges, so a wide-spectrum shakedown from experienced application
automators is also much needed to check I've not missed any
compatibility issues. (Plus the documentation needs a damn good edit,
natch; but I'm not going to worry about that until the first two issues
are covered as it's in flux till then anyway.)
Basically, I can do the AE-related engineering okay cos I know that
narrow problem space better'n anyone, but for everything else it needs
other folks to step up and assist. Partly cos those are areas I'm short
on skills and time to do it and get it right all on my own; partly cos
my failing to get others invested and involved in project development,
or work effectively with them to evangelize and support it, was the
reason it all cratered last time around. A system's only ever as good as
its weakest point, which in AEB's case is the rubbishy non-redundant
wetware it's currently running on, so the eventual goal would be to
persuade Apple to take it over for inclusion in 10.12 [2], although
that's require a heck of lot more folks to throw their weight behind it.
So baby steps and bug reports first, and all help and advice is greatly
appreciated.
Best regards,
has
...
[1] And still do: http://www.mantasystems.co.uk/docs.html
[2] A not entirely unrealistic goal as Mac::Glue already made it into
10.4, and appscript (alongside RubyOSA and SB) was being considered for
inclusion in 10.5, and might have made it in too had dumbass here not
been asleep on the job. :/
On 15/07/2015 12:53, Alex Zavatone wrote:
Thanks, Has. This looks great.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 13, 2015, at 10:25 AM, has<hengist.p...@virgin.net> wrote:
Hi all,
In light of OS X 10.11 addressing some longstanding deficiencies in
NSAppleEventDescriptor, I've been dusting off a fork of my old objc-appscript
project, now renamed AppleEventBridge, modernizing and extending it both to
take advantage of improvements to ObjC in the last few years and to add native
support for Apple's new Swift language:
https://bitbucket.org/hhas/appleeventbridge/
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