Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "James C. Andrew" Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,uk.comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: [ANN] MacSOUP is now free (and unsupported) Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 09:14:26 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: <2soq8d-nlu.ln1@magrathea.plus.com> References: <1mscdiw.120k8zk19vdv7uN%stk.usenet@haller-berlin.de> Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="28ac5d84ab5f9dddad814d561ed80c2d"; logging-data="15597"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18JOExY6UDCwuz4DV4aOXuk76bjX45ce/Q=" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.2 (Darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GdL4cx7IAt6V8zsqcziLHi7pnn8= Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.comm:2985 uk.comp.sys.mac:112628 On 2016-08-21, Stefan Haller wrote: > Well, de facto MacSOUP has been more or less unsupported for a long > time, with no new releases for years. > > I have been meaning to stop taking money for it for years, because it > was really not justifiable any more; but even that is work (removing the > registration number mechanism from a code base that barely builds with > recent versions of Xcode), so I never got around to it. Now that Kagi > has gone out of business, I had no choice. > > So now, MacSOUP is free and officially unsupported. I will try to keep > it running on new macOS versions as long as this is possible with > reasonable effort, but if this becomes too much work, I'll stop doing > it. (This will definitely be the case if Apple removes the Carbon > libraries from macOS, or stops supporting 32-bit applications.) > > The free 2.8.5 version is available from: > > > > There have been very, very few bits of software that I've installed on every Mac I've owned. MacSOUP is one of them. In fact it may be the only one. Many, many thanks for your efforts over the years. Jim