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The_Tick wrote:If I bought a new car, and it didn't have a full tank in it, I would return it.

A new home made car, made as a hobby and given for free to everybody who wants it.

Mitar wrote:

The_Tick wrote:If I bought a new car, and it didn't have a full tank in it, I would return it.

A new home made car, made as a hobby and given for free to everybody who wants it.

You'd go broke.

The comparisons have gone far enough. Needless to say you know my opinion of the way you're doing things is rather poor, and I'm only trying to get you to see the better option, but either way, good luck.

Please find a way to support your plugin outside of the Growl forums. You're welcome to report issues that are about Growl here, but we generally want to keep this just about Growl and not about the software that surrounds it.

The_Tick wrote:and I'm only trying to get you to see the better option, but either way, good luck.

Thanks. :-)

The_Tick wrote:Please find a way to support your plugin outside of the Growl forums. You're welcome to report issues that are about Growl here, but we generally want to keep this just about Growl and not about the software that surrounds it.

I agree. So I would like to ask everybody who has come by this thread and wants support to write me an e-mail.

By the way, if you would like to include the plugin in the official Growl package you are welcomed.

Mitar wrote:
By the way, if you would like to include the plugin in the official Growl package you are welcomed.

It'd have to be much easier to install.

The_Tick wrote:It'd have to be much easier to install.

As far as I know it is. You have to have growlnotify command line utility and installation in Thunderbird is really simple (the same as with all other extensions).

If you are implying about the notification if the growlnotify command line utility is missing I have added it a long time ago:

https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/3448/history/

Mitar wrote:

The_Tick wrote:It'd have to be much easier to install.

As far as I know it is. You have to have growlnotify command line utility and installation in Thunderbird is really simple (the same as with all other extensions).

If you are implying about the notification if the growlnotify command line utility is missing I have added it a long time ago:

https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/3448/history/

Requiring growlnotify and not bundling it is too hard for our users though, sorry.

The_Tick wrote:Requiring growlnotify and not bundling it is too hard for our users though, sorry.

You think I should bundle the growlnotify into the extension itself? But then it will not be updated as someone update the "system" one.

Mitar wrote:

The_Tick wrote:Requiring growlnotify and not bundling it is too hard for our users though, sorry.

You think I should bundle the growlnotify into the extension itself? But then it will not be updated as someone update the "system" one.

We haven't updated the "system" one in.. 2 years?

The_Tick wrote:We haven't updated the "system" one in.. 2 years?

There's no guarantee that won't change though. The best course would be to check the version of growlnotify bundled in your app against the one detected on the system and defer to the system if newer. Alternatively you can ignore and just use the bundled version which is guaranteed to work as you expect, versus what may not apply or work with the newer one.

bgannin wrote:

The_Tick wrote:We haven't updated the "system" one in.. 2 years?

There's no guarantee that won't change though. The best course would be to check the version of growlnotify bundled in your app against the one detected on the system and defer to the system if newer. Alternatively you can ignore and just use the bundled version which is guaranteed to work as you expect, versus what may not apply or work with the newer one.

Aye, albeit we'd not break older versions of growlnotify very lightly and would highly publicize it.

Regarding inclusion with Growl, I don't think we should do it in general. There is a guy working on getting Growl working with moco apps already, and if that goes through then it'll be built in. We'll see though.

After installing this extension as well as the growlnotify extra (via instructions: http://growl.info/documentation/growlnotify.php ), I receive an error every time growl attempts to notify me of a new message.

"Required growlnotify extra has not been found. Please install it."

I am running Thunderbird 2.0, growl 0.7.6 and Growl New Message Notification 0.3.

samuraispy wrote:After installing this extension as well as the growlnotify extra (via instructions: http://growl.info/documentation/growlnotify.php ), I receive an error every time growl attempts to notify me of a new message.

"Required growlnotify extra has not been found. Please install it."

I am running Thunderbird 2.0, growl 0.7.6 and Growl New Message Notification 0.3.

Mitar, this is PRECISELY why you should be bundling growlnotify inside your plugin. Not only would you have avoided problems for samuraispy if you had put in a tad more work into this, you would have much easier to use software. This is the reason that as soon as I can I will get your plugin removed from the extensions page.



samuraispy Please contact Mitar for support. He continues to assume that everyone knows their way around the terminal, and as such requires it this way rather than actually doing what is good for the user (i.e. you). If he refuses to provide you support, let me know.

I'm going to close this thread. We're not here to troubleshoot some skank plugin. I tend to appreciate any kind of work to help out Growl, but this is just impossibly annoying.