Comments on: Growl Fork Brings Growl Notifications to Mac OS X Lion for Free

By: AJ

AJ — Fri, 18 May 2012 01:21:06 +0000

This, iirc, was the reason for the fork.

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Use Growl Notifications to Alert When Command Line Tasks Have Completed — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:31:27 +0000

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By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 03:26:32 +0000

Thanks so much for creating the fork! Now superduper, gaim, other applications are working again. Let’s keep open source open!

By: Datbates

Datbates — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:49:18 +0000

The concept of paying $2 to break stuff for a program that will just go away when Apple puts out their own hopefully improved version of notifications in Mountain Lion is silly. They are just trying to make sure they are ready for becoming obsolete, and that they can get a little money before they go away.

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Get DropBox Public Links Easier with Bloodrop for Mac OS X — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:36:35 +0000

[...] grabbing Bloodrop, you’ll want to have Growl (or the free Growl Fork) installed so you can be notified when a file is shared and the URL is [...]

By: phrend

phrend — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:46:39 +0000

The guy that forked Growl did it because, at the time, there were some pretty serious bugs with the existing Growl on Lion, and the source code for the released $2 app was not available… so the guy paid $2 for something that didn’t work for him… he and the Growl developers got in to a war (you can debate who to blame) and the Growl devs banned him from their mailing list… so he forked it and fixed the bug, then made his version available. You can google for the details if you care.

The source code is available now… so this fork will probably have a limited lifespan.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:15:55 +0000

Almost bought the new one on the app store but found out it was pointless because it changed developer api breaking support with all apps save a handful. Kind of pointless to buy a useless product. If the development team was clever enough to support the old api along with the new api I would have most definitely purchased it. Since the new growl api supports notifications without installing growl, why update?

By: James Dehnert

James Dehnert — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:48:32 +0000

I was happy to pay a meer $2.00 to support, however slightly, the developers of Growl. I’m glad there is still a free version too, but $2.00 isn’t really much to ask.

By: Growk Fork, una versión gratuita (pero limitada) de Growl | Soy de Mac

Growk Fork, una versión gratuita (pero limitada) de Growl | Soy de Mac — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:07:13 +0000

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By: JJ

JJ — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:08:17 +0000

cd is cd your Growl source path.

By: JJ

JJ — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:46:18 +0000

HardwareGrowler 1.3.x still open source too.

and you can update source code 1.3 to 1.3.2 now.

how to update your code from hg clone https://code.google.com/p/growl/

open Terminal.app and type below:

cd
hg pull
hg update maintenance-1.3

By: Daniel Serodio

Daniel Serodio — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:13:19 +0000

The problem with Growl 1.3 is not such much that it’s a paid app, but that the API changed and “old” applications (like Colloquy) don’t work with it.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:00:24 +0000

It’s really not that expensive guys. A good utility worth paying a bit for, especially given it’s not actually closed source.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:55:11 +0000

Scratch git, despite being on Google Code it uses Mercurial instead. Download that here http://mercurial.selenic.com/downloads/

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:50:46 +0000

Righto, I was just about to post that link.

Ultimately I think the Fork is for the average joe who doesn’t know how to compile things, but who also doesn’t want to pay for the convenience of a preinstalled package.