Flow Nightlies
Hey Folks,
What an incredible last four days these have been! The exciting news of Flow’s release has been received positively by more blogs and news outlets than I could possibly list here. While the focus of this post isn’t to talk about the launch, I just wanted to briefly thank everybody who has supported Flow (and myself) through this whole process, once again. As I’ve said in an unhealthy number of e-mails, it means a lot to me.
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That being said, I want to talk a bit about the future, and mention the first bit of infrastructure Extendmac will be employing to help us get there.
While I’m incredibly proud of Flow 1.0, obviously there are bugs that must be (and will be) addressed, as well as features you’ve all made clear you want implemented. As I’ve made a point of saying in other corners of the internet, this is just the beginning of the true development cycle, not the end.
Unlike many other applications on OS X, testing fixes for an FTP app is significantly more difficult, as there are quite literally thousands of server-setups we’ve got to support. Obviously, at Extendmac, we don’t have thousands of servers to test on, so when I think I’ve addressed an issue, the best way to make sure it’s fixed, is to have the reporter test to make sure.
So instead of e-mailing internal revisions of Flow to bug-reporters, I’m going to do something a whole lot cooler. Introducing Flow Nightlies.
Nightlies are pre-release builds of Flow intended to ensure, first hand, that your bug has been addressed.
When you submit a bug report, and we think we’ve fixed it, you’ll receive a notification via e-mail requesting you verify the fix. Whether or not you do so is entirely up to you, but I get the feeling that many users will appreciate the ability to get their fix without waiting for a public, official, dot-release.
If you’ve got comments, thoughts, or suggestions, as usual, I’d love to hear them.
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April 7th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Consider adding a “cutting edge” auto update function as Textmate does so one can update to stable or cutting edge branch with ease?
April 7th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
@Will Prater
Naturally. In this context (that is, providing the builds for a specific purpose, instead of generally giving users the latest just because it’s better), though, it’s important to establish the non-appcast home of where this stuff lives, too.
April 9th, 2008 at 7:29 am
I’ve been using the trial for a couple of days,
Can’t figure out why you don’t have a ‘group folders’ option (Transmit doesn’t either, but ForkLift does)
this for me really ain’t a proper way to view my files.
April 10th, 2008 at 6:12 am
The new icon set is so great! Love it Brian and Olivier!
I discovered a little bug which occurs when I open Coverflow view in Finder:
Scroll to the Flow icon in Coverflow and then enlarge the Coverflow section by pulling down the gripper beneath the horizontal scrollbar. When a bigger Flow icon is used (presumably 512×512) the icon is cut of at the bottom. You see it “jump” a little actually. It’s probably something with the spacing.
Thanks!
April 10th, 2008 at 7:39 am
Add support for Textmate project editing (which is already achievable by adding Flow’s folder in application support, but is very buggy) and the ability to have proper bookmarks within servers (a list of saved sites shouldn’t be called ‘bookmarks’, it should be called ‘favorites’) and I’ll be picking up a license in a jiffy.
April 10th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
i ordered flow and did not get my serial. i placed the order several days ago. i even wrote an email to support. no repsonse. and they took my money… great company.
April 11th, 2008 at 5:15 am
update: got my license. thanks.
April 14th, 2008 at 11:40 am
I’ve been testing Flow with the trial and it certainly seems nice and I might consider buying it. But the deal-breaker for me are the permissions. If I’m not able to set permissions for multiple files at once (batch action), then the application is useless for me. Setting upload permissions is one thing but once they’re up, you may want to change them again… for dozens or hundreds of files. Right now, permissions can only be changed file by file. Also, being able to see permissions (in an additional column) for all the files seems to be missing as well.
When do you think this will be implemented?
Thanks
April 15th, 2008 at 5:07 am
Well, this is not the right place to put bug reports I think
I liked flow throughout the whole (and long) beta period. I tested, even reported stuff, etc.
I have tried every other FTP client out there for Mac. I might buy Flow (I have Fetch and I am happy with it); but there’s a thing that no FTP client does (afaik), not transmit, not fetch, not interarchy, not cyberduck, not ForkLift, not Finder, not not not not, etc. (well, Total Comander for Windows does it)
What?
Throttle.
xDSL lines gets easily saturated with fast FTPs. The ability to say: “download this file at 5k/sec” is a “must” in order to be a good neighborhood. We are 4 here using the same line, if I want to download 1gb from an Ftp, I might not want to f**k my other friends during that time.
The first FTP client that implements that as easy as xTorrent do for P2P, gets my love.
It must not be hard given that Leopard ALREADY has support for that. If you can dynamically operate that (that is add rules on demand…) that could be an idea.
Anyways, Brian, congratulations!
April 15th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Is it just me, or can I not resume downloads. Throttling downloads, as well, would be good. Multiple connections to download a single file would be godly
April 16th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
@ Martin Marconcini
Throttling Transfers (up and down) has been implemented in CyberDuck for ages and works pretty well. Adjust for all transfers in > Preferences / Bandwidth or per file in the download window.
@ Flow Development Team
Above mentioned feature would certainly be helpful. Thanks.