wincent.com news: Leopard product readiness

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October 26, 2007

Leopard product readiness

With Leopard only 15 hours from release it's time for a product status report:

Leopard-ready

The following products have received extensive testing on pre-release versions of Leopard and are expected to work with a high degree of compatibility. When Apple ships the final version to developers further testing will be performed to see if any further changes are required:

Synergy: the lightweight, robust, and feature-packed iTunes controller.
Install: simple and dependable installation solution for developers.
WOTest: open source Objective-C unit testing framework.
Wincent Strings Utility: open source localization helper tool for developers.

Beta-status

This product hasn't been heavily tested with Leopard but conflicting reports have been received that it continues to work under the new operating system; others report that they've been unable to install it. When the Leopard final arrives further investigation will be undertaken.

WinSwitch: Fast User Switching menu replacement.

Coming soon

These products aren't yet Leopard-ready but work is well on the way to completion (about 90% done) and so I hope to release Leopard-compatible versions within the next two to three weeks:

Synergy Advance: Plug-in based audio companion.
Hextrapolate: Programmers number conversion tool.

Unknown

The status of the following product on Leopard is unknown:

atosym: Address-to-symbol conversion aid for programmers.

All other products

There are a number of other products which aren't specifically tied to the Mac OS X platform, and so should work on Leopard just as they did under Tiger:

Bansshee: protection against SSH dictionary attacks.
Walrus: object-oriented templating system written in Ruby.