XT and Catalina

[David Gregg]

> On Oct 11, 2019, at 9:18 AM, James Sentman <james at sentman.com> wrote:
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> Short answer is no.  You are in for a world of hurt just attempting it. Many of the original plugins will not run on Catalina yet because of the completely arbitrary decision to end support for 32 bit apps. Beyond this they have also made some significant changes to the AppleScript system making it much more picky about certain syntax that is likely to break many scripts. There is nothing I can do about this but I don’t know enough yet to seriously even tell you what to watch out for or what you can do to fix any errors that happen. I don’t know if I should be happy that they are thinking about AppleScript or upset that they are breaking things that weren’t broken.
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> I will be releasing the next build as both a regular zip file as well as a catalina “notarized” dmg file. So there will be a version that will run. But again, not with the older plugins and goodness only knows if your scripts will even run. 
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> I can’t write civilly about Catalina yet, bad words keep slipping into my output here. So suffice it to say that you are welcome to try the next release, but you’re going to be unhappy. The most recent release I wasn’t even able to notarize as the beta version of the tool that does the work had expired without a replacement at that point. I’m sure I”ll be able to find that for the next build. Probably… but that will just allow it to run, it is still never going to run the older plugins and I haven’t been able to complete the process of replacing them yet.
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> Seriously, just don’t, There is zero reason to update your server to it. There is no new feature that it contains that would make the fact that it won’t run half of the other stuff you are already using worth while.

Will XTension run effectively in a virtual machine?
Has anyone tried it?

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>> On Oct 7, 2019, at 5:25 PM, Brian Williams <brwill at me.com> wrote:
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>> My Macs are sitting with Catalina in the wings. Are we ready to let it on stage to perform with XT?
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> Thanks,
>  James
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> James Sentman                       http://www.PlanetaryGear.org		http://MacHomeAutomation.com
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