I've been using Cyberduck for several years now on OSX. And for those many years OSX has had built-in support for Java apps. Remember that post about Apple dropping support for some Java-based apps? Well, I see Cyberduck has fallen prey to the God of Deprecated API's and is not compatible in Tiger... So there was a reason not to upgrade after all.The sad thing is that Cyberduck worked quite well, and was just starting to become a really rock-solid app. There are about 20 localizations for crying out loud! It also supports Growl notifications. Clearly it is popular. But since many of the API's it relied upon have been dissed and dismissed by Apple, it can no longer find a home on the Mac platform. Another victim of "progress."
UPDATE: Several of you have mentioned Cyberduck is still working in Tiger! I finally got home (where ftp isn't blocked) and tried the latest build to find—it works. In fact, it seems faster. I even like the new disconnect button. D'oh! Thanks for everyone who mentioned this. Now someone should tell developer David Kocher...
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7-19-2005 @ 10:08PM
Jeff Wheeler said...
Luckily, there is a far better ftp program: Transmit. So well aquafied, this program couldn't be any more friendly and fun to use.
Wow, that sounded like an endorsement.
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7-19-2005 @ 10:09PM
Rick Roberts said...
Cyberduck is alive and well, updated just today. I use it every day under Tiger, especially since my faithful Transmit stalls so often connecting to my X server.
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7-19-2005 @ 10:35PM
Thomas said...
I have been using CyberDuck in 10.4.x no problem. Haven't grabbed the updated version yet today, but it's been working great.
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7-23-2005 @ 2:45PM
Mike C. said...
Java is not going anywhere -- stop the silly rumor.
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7-23-2005 @ 8:02PM
Victor Agreda, Jr. said...
Mike, obviously Java isn't going anywhere (Sun might be another issue), but the Cocoa-Java API's are a done deal. Apple has stated it themselves. In Tiger, they are deprecated, in Liger, or 10.5 or whatever it'll be called, they will be gone.
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