Being an independent software developer is great when it comes to short trips. No application for leave, just pack one’s bags and go along. I flew last wednesday to cologne for the Maclive Expo. It was great to meet there some friends and also make some new connection.

So in the last week there was not much time left for OMiC 2.0, but now I’m back on track and already make some good progress today.

Getting OMiC ready for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard makes more problems and take more time than I thought, so today there is just a beta version I can offer you. If you are interested in it write me a line.

I’m happy that I have some customer which have large enough deployments that they use Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) to install OMiC. In such a deployment the administrator don’t want that a update dialog pop up by his users, which has most the time not the rights to perform the update.

For this cases I add to Sparkle the SUIgnoreChecks key, which the administrator can set over Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) in the application preferences file.

OMiC use Sparkle for updating since version 1.7.2, but you can’t use Sparkle do update Plug-ins out of the box. So I spend the last days do turn my home cooked solution into something which work for other Plug-ins as well. If you are interested, checkout the Sparkle subversion repository.

Yesterday I switched to PackageMaker 3.0 to generate packages. My Plug-in OMiC is build separate for Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4 to support the different features.

So the simplest solution maybe offer two downloads and give user the choice which version he needs. But thanks to Metapackages and Distribution Packages the installer choice which version is needed.

So let us start PackageMaker (/Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker) …

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