Has anyone tried SCPlugin lately?

[Michael Vanlandingham]

FWIW, I tried it just last week, although I'm hesitant to use it,  
beyond basic browsing, on active "production' projects.  I usually  
use the cmd-line svn so it's a little odd for me. So far I found it  
to be still quite rough, although usable for basic ci/co, etc.  Some  
things I noticed were that the "Info" and "Log" menu items didn't  
seem to be functional, although selecting them would 'unfocus' the  
Finder's current window (cmd-tilde wouldn't work, etc) -- as if it  
had brought some hidden process to the foreground.

The status window works OK but it'd be nice if it were a panel  
instead of a big window.

Also, the Finder feels slower -- especially after I refresh the  
icons.  I'm getting a few spods when opening some versioned projects  
in the Finder.
As for the icon displays, I'm also wary:  I'm not sure I want to run  
a Finder plugin that's doing mach/dyld hacks -- at least one that I  
didn't write ;-)

I tried it primarily on Tiger, althogh I did install on Leopard as  
well.   It looks like the override stuff for the badge overlay  
doesn't get away with it on Leopard.  It draws, then it looks like  
the Finder quickly restores the original unmodified icon.

-mvl


On Aug 21, 2007, at 5:17 AM, Jack Nutting wrote:

> I was pretty psyched to see that there's a new version of SCPlugin
> available (0.7, at http://scplugin.tigris.org/ ).  Congrats to Jack
> Repenning (and any other contributors whose names I'm afraid I don't
> know) on getting it out the door!  I got hooked on the TortoiseSVN
> style a couple years ago, and based on what's stated in the
> announcement, it looks like SCPlugin is now approaching that level of
> functionality.
>
> However, I'm kind of superstitious about Finder plugins in general,
> especially ones that do things like modifying icon displays (which I
> imagine *must* be relying on undocumented APIs), and therefore
> somewhat leery of installing SCPlugin at all.  Has anyone besides the
> dev team been using it lately?  Any comments on
> stability/functionality?  Compatibility experiences with the revamped
> Finder in a certain upcoming OS?
>
> -- 
> // jack
> // http://www.nuthole.com
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