| Re: [ANN] FoxTrot Search 5.0b1 products now available for testing [message #137 is a reply to message #136] |
Tue, 23 July 2013 09:36   |
D Levy
Messages: 15
Registered: July 2012
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Hi Jean-Michel
Thanks for this notice.
My immediate response to the feature set for this release is that it
does not deserve to be an integer release. Unless I am misreading the
feature set it seems to me that there are two main improvements: iOS
syncing (which seems to be a clone process to an available directory)
and 10.9 support.
Maybe the 10.9 support took a lot of work. I don't know. If it did,
fair enough. It is welcome.
I don't like saying things that are critical, because I just love
FoxTrot. It is the best at what it does by far. And I don't mind
spending for an upgrade every couple of years, but I like it to have
some more new stuff, even a UI overhaul or some more UI polish. Or a
native indexer/parser for .eml and .emlx files. I haven't thought a lot
about it, but probably there are some other new features/improvements
you could make.
Maybe 4.5 was too big a release and you feel that 5.0 is the only
natural progression.
Anyway, I'm just giving you a first response. It is not a big deal, but
I thought you might like to know.
cheers
David.
On 22 Jul 2013, at 20:54, CTM info wrote:
> attn. FoxTrot-Search group members:
>
> Greetings from the sweltering Swiss summer.
>
> We are pleased to make a preview of FoxTrot version 5 products
> available to you today for testing, in the hope that you will put
> these versions to work and report feedback to this group or to us
> directly.
>
> Please see below for download links and all five products.
>
> Three main area of emphasis for testing are:
>
> - the new mechanisms for more automated transfer of indexes from Mac
> to iOS via an http upload/download
> - Mavericks support, for those of you who have access to it.
> - performance optimizations on existing installations and OS versions
>
> For the FoxTrot Search team:
>
> jean michel/ctm qa
>
> -------------------------------
>>> FoxTrot Professional Search
> -------------------------------
>
> Software:
>
>
> Release notes:
>
>
> Version 5.0b1 features:
> Enhanced IOS Support
> ◦ FoxTrot indices can now be synced from FoxTrot Professional or
> FoxTrot Server, to FoxTrot Attaché on iOS, using web sharing. This is
> a very significant addition that enables seamless periodic uploads of
> indexes, either clear or encrypted, either containing just text or
> complete document sets, to be downloadable at any time from iOS. This
> mechanism supplements the ability to drag index files using iTunes,
> and introduces an optimized format for read-only index archives.
>
> Preliminary OS X 10.9 Mavericks support
> ◦ Finder tags are indexed and categorized in addition to OpenMeta
> tags.
> ◦ Known issue: the FoxTrot system menu is not working correctly on
> Mavericks.
>
> Miscellaneous improvements
> ◦ Google Earth .kml files are now indexed.
> ◦ A hidden preference has been added to allow indexing a given file
> type using the metadata importer of another file type.
>
> Bug fixes
> ◦ Some text documents containing very long lines with no space
> character could fail to display in the preview pane.
> ◦ Some document types were not indexed when no specific metadata
> importer is found, althought they are a variant of another document
> type for which a compatible importer exists.
>
> System requirements
> ◦ FoxTrot 5.0 requires an Intel Mac running Mac OS X 10.6 or later.
> ◦ Present builds work either as a 30 day demo or are enable using a
> FoxTrot version 4 license key
>
>
> -----------------------------
>>> FoxTrot Attaché Search iOS
> -----------------------------
>
> Software:
>
>
> Release notes essentials:
> ◦ Support for downloading indices produced by FoxTrot Pro or
> FoxTrot Server from http servers
> ◦ Note: only download and install the contents of that archive if
> you are currently a tester on the same
>
> ---------------------------------
>>> FoxTrot Search Server & admin
> ---------------------------------
>
> Software:
>
>
> Release notes:
>
>
> Version 5.0b1 features:
> iOS Support
> ◦ FoxTrot indices can now be synced from FoxTrot Professional or
> FoxTrot Server, to FoxTrot Attaché on iOS, using web sharing.
> Preliminary OS X 10.9 Mavericks support
> ◦ Finder tags are indexed and categorized in addition to OpenMeta
> tags.
> ◦ Know issue: the FoxTrot system menu is not working correctly.
> Miscellaneous improvements
> ◦ Google Earth .kml files are now indexed.
> ◦ A hidden preference has been added to allow indexing a given file
> type using the metadata importer of another file type.
> Bug fixes
> ◦ Some document types were not indexed when no specific metadata
> importer is found, althought they are a variant of another document
> type for which a compatible importer exists.
> System requirements
> ◦ FoxTrot 5.0 requires an Intel Mac running Mac OS X 10.6 or later.
> ◦ Present builds work either as a 30 day demo or are enable using a
> FoxTrot version 4 license key
>
> -----------------------------
>>> FoxTrot Personal Search
> -----------------------------
>
> Software:
>
>
> Release notes:
>
>
> Version 5.0b1 features:
> Preliminary OS X 10.9 Mavericks support
> ◦ Finder tags are indexed and categorized in addition to OpenMeta
> tags.
> ◦ Know issue: the FoxTrot system menu is not working correctly.
> Miscellaneous improvements
> ◦ Google Earth .kml files are now indexed.
> ◦ A hidden preference has been added to allow indexing a given file
> type using the metadata importer of another file type.
> Bug fixes
> ◦ Some text documents containing very long lines with no space
> character could fail to display in the preview pane.
> ◦ Some document types were not indexed when no specific metadata
> importer is found, althought they are a variant of another document
> type for which a compatible importer exists.
> System requirements
> ◦ FoxTrot 5.0 requires an Intel Mac running Mac OS X 10.6 or later.
> ◦ Present builds work either as a 30 day demo or are enable using a
> FoxTrot version 4 license key
>
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