It seems that there's bad news everytime we make progress
Universal binaries inch closer, old bugs make a
re-appearance.
first the good news: we have made some significant
progress on the road to universal binaries. we have an empty XCode-hosted
plug-in shell compiling, and are busy building the first test-bed plug-in. our
road to universal looks a bit like
this:
1. build X-Code hosted plug-in
shell that compiles (complete)
2. re-build
plug-in as a bundle-based plug-in
(complete)
3. build bundle-based interface,
getting rid of old resources (we are here)
4.
build a fully-functional XCode-hosted
plug-in
5. build the same plug-in on an
intel-machine
6. debug
completely
7. begin porting all other
plug-ins based on previous
experience
we are currently at step 3
(switching the code to bundle-based interface). it's slow progress, but we are
getting there.
now for the bad news: It
appears that Apple has managed to re-introduce an old bug into iMovie 6.0.3 that
it solved previously: the preview-bug now once again rears it's ugly head.
unless you disable the preview before you apply a plug-in, iMovie will crash. as
you may remember, Apple fixed this with 6.0.1 - now it's back. and yes, the bug
is inside apple's code somewhere. what a
disappointment.
Posted: Mon - March 5, 2007 at 09:12 PM