skEdit
Published June 16, 2005
I've been getting a lot of questions lately about the development progress of skEdit. It is progressing. I'm putting the final touches on some new features so that I can send out beta five in the next week or two. After that, there will be one more "feature beta", and then probably one or two "bug fix betas". I hope to do the release in August, although I can't promise that.
This release has taken longer than most previous releases for a couple reasons. First, it's a big release, with a lot of large new features. Second, the spring semester was crazily busy, leaving little time for skEdit. The summer internship leaves me much more time to work on skEdit than I had in the spring.
So, skEdit is still under active development. I'm doing as much as I can while here working for Apple, and will go full blast when the internship ends in early August. I appreciate your patience, and think you will find v3.6 to have been worth the wait.
Good News
Thx
Etienne on June 16, 2005 #Any hints on what the new features will be?
Please dont add so much stuff that it becomes bloated! I'm sure you wont :)
andrew blunsum on June 16, 2005 #Thanks for the rough beta guideline. I will say that version 3.6 is definitely worth the wait. There's quite a few very cool new features :-).
Sean would you be against testers taking some screen shots & posting them for general users to see if there's enough interest ?.
Cheers,
Rick
skEdit beta tester
Rick Blythin on June 16, 2005 #Good to hear an update Sean
Gavin Sim on June 16, 2005 #Sean - just wondering if you've any plans to allow for SVN integration rather than CVS? I'm only just evaluating skEdit right now, just to try it out, but I'm more often than not looking for something that will integrate with SVN directly.
Any thoughts?
Derek Featherstone on June 16, 2005 #"Any hints on what the new features will be?"
Not yet. I may post something in the future.
"Sean would you be against testers taking some screen shots & posting them for general users to see if there's enough interest?"
I'd rather you not. I'll post screenshots if I want to. When people have posted them in the past, I get a lot of emails like "How do I turn on feature X?", where feature X is a beta-only feature.
"any plans to allow for SVN integration"
Yes.
Sean Kelly on June 16, 2005 #Sean,
keep up the good work & good karma. From what I've seen, v3.6 will rock...
Ale Muņoz on June 17, 2005 #Good news! The only thing I'm really hoping for is the elimination of that odd intermittent (but regularly occurring) bug wherein the text 'smears' when I scroll.
Cheers!
C on June 19, 2005 #The beta is looking good. SVN integration will be nice.
Also, will this be the release with the live-preview?
Brian on June 23, 2005 #"will this be the release with the live-preview"
It could very well be.
Sean Kelly on June 23, 2005 #Live Preview - sounds good, would save a lot of switching back and forth to the browser!
Gavin Sim on June 24, 2005 #Glad to hear about the live preview, that was pretty much the only feature I found missing. Good to hear you're actively working on the development. :-)
Yuri Vishnevsky on June 25, 2005 #Sorry for the double post, but I was wondering whether there will be FTP integration. I can't seem to connect to my website's FTP server with SFTP, although using Transmit works.
Yuri Vishnevsky on June 25, 2005 #Normal FTP support has been a hugely common request since the release of v3.5. I'm working on supporting it for v3.6.
As for not being able to connect over SFTP, if you server supports it, please contact me via the contact form and we can try to figure out the issue:
http://www.skti.org/contact.php
Sean Kelly on June 25, 2005 #I'm guessing it doesn't support SFTP, as skEdit displays 'Connecting...' for a bit, then tells me that the remote host refused the connection.
Yuri Vishnevsky on June 25, 2005 #Great to hear about the Live Preview (and the SVN support).
@Yuri: You could also try contacting your host and asking them if they could enable SFTP. After all, it is safer.
Brian on June 26, 2005 #Yuri:
If you're using Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, it has a bug that stops SFTP from working. SFTP tries to connect but timeouts/fails after a period because of a "No credentials cache found" problem.
There's more about this in Apple Support's Tiger > Networking Discussion forum and on web host forums like TextDrive's.
Dale Gillard on June 29, 2005 #Dug up the support thread. Not sure if this is a permanent link or not:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?13@483.ypmkaVfcU9s.1@.68adbf5e/19
If not, you can go to:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/tiger.networking/
Search for "SFTP". It's the "Very slow ssh" thread.
Sean Kelly on June 29, 2005 #Live preview, SVN, regular FTP: awesome! That'll be worth the wait :)
Rob Mientjes on July 30, 2005 #OOOOOOOh, i can't wait! a real 'competition-squasher!'
luxuryluke on August 2, 2005 #