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Non-Apple Sherlock 3 Channels?

Posted by Cliff on from the elementary-dear-watson dept.

AnamanFan queries: "I've been a bit curious about Sherlock 3 and the release of the Sherlock SDK. I wondered if there were any new channels out there, but my Googleing came up dry. There are a few nifty developer-related channels by Apple that feature an XPath Finder, as well as JavaScript, HTML, & XQuery interpreters, but I was wondering if anyone out there has made use of the SDK."

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  1. SDK is terrible, that's why... by sammaffei · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It wouldn't have to do with the fact that the SDK is probably the most convoluted, kludged thing I've seen in years. XQuery and Javascript? To gag...

    Watson's Cocoa based SDK is much easier to code for.

    I mean it's so fun that Apple hasn't even provided us with new channels. Watson is constantly being improved upon and getting new tools.

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    1. Re:SDK is terrible, that's why... by hbmartin · · Score: 2, Insightful

      As much as I love Apple, I really have to agree on this one. The documentation sucks, to say the least. There's not one basic example of a channel provided. And JS and XQuery? I honestly didn't even realize XQ existed before this. Perl wuld be the perfect language to develop a channel in. *sigh*, maybe version 3.1.

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