Filed under: Developer, Internet, Utilities, Macintosh
Goodbye Cyberduck FTP
by Victor Agreda, Jr. Jul 19th 2005 at 9:54PM
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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jeff Wheeler said 10:08PM on 7-19-2005
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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Rick Roberts said 10:09PM on 7-19-2005
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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Thomas said 10:35PM on 7-19-2005
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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Mike C. said 2:45PM on 7-23-2005
Java is not going anywhere -- stop the silly rumor.
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Victor Agreda, Jr. said 8:02PM on 7-23-2005
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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