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Juanvaldes writes "Apple has put online more developer-oriented information about Tiger. There are also detailed articles about Spotlight, Dashboard, 64-bit apps and Automator."
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the ability to build event scripts with XML and/or HTML sounds freakin' awesome.
I think you're mistaken. Dashboard widgets are written in HTML+JavaScript. Automator actions are written in AppleScript or Objective-C.
It's basically built on top of AppleScript, so you won't be able to do anything that can't already be done with AppleScript. Apps or functions that aren't scriptable will be inaccessable to Automator.
On the other hand, I think developers will be more prone to add scripting support now that scripting is more accessable to users, and not the pain in the ass that AppleScript typically is.
Don't become a regular here -- you will become retarded.
They date back to the original development of the Macintosh. That is, they predate everything outside of Xerox PARC.
This stuff looks pretty nifty:
Along with improvements to the GUI, Xcode 2.0 will ship with GCC 4.0 which features a new C++ Parser and several code generation improvements including auto-vectorization. While hand-tuning Velocity Engine code can get you the maximum performance from the G4 and G5 processors, now you can have GCC do the heavy lifting for you. You'll benefit from this without any extra effort, with auto-vectorization in GCC bringing anywhere between a 4X and 14X performance improvement to code that works with arrays of data.
AltiVec support without having to write any optimized code...sounds like a winner to me.
The important part is Any UNIX command or script, the remainder are just examples. Look at the code snippet right below it, there is a standard system call, executing a command.
No problem with calling a Python script from that.