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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000365 | VisualDiffer | General | public | 2023-08-13 21:06 | 2025-11-24 05:19 |
| Reporter | tkmantis | Assigned To | admin | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | N/A |
| Status | assigned | Resolution | open | ||
| Product Version | 1.8.7 | ||||
| Summary | 0000365: Can you make this app be open source? | ||||
| Description | Can you please make this app be open source? I would like to be able to view the source code. Nonprogrammers and those unqualified to use Xcode can continue to buy the compiled version on the app store. Thanks | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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I understand VD seems abandoned but I'm the only developer and at this time my life requires other priorities, I love VD, it was created at first for myself and when I realized other people could appreciate it I published on MAS for few bucks I'm the only developer, I'm the project owner and I have no time so releasing as open source sounds good but not for me, nobody buys a so specific application, occasional users don't buy apps |
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Actually, I think this app would be a good candidate for open source, as others may make contributions, given that you have little time. If you make it open source, I might be interested in trying to extend it to compare names and lengths of extended resources with a checkbox next to "Check Resource Fork", especially if the app is written in Swift. I might even explore the idea in ticket 358 (Proposal for Efficient Compare over network) as well. |
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Thank you for posting the code on github. I am curious, can you tell me the versions of MacOS and XCode you used to run the build? Thanks. |
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App compiled on Sequoia (15.7.2) with latest XCode version (26.1) The app runs on Ventura (13.5) and above |
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I downloaded this and ran the build with Xcode 16.4 in Sequoia 15.3.1, with no errors. Running the app for a cursory test comparing two folders revealed no obvious issues. Thank you for publishing clean code that is ready for anyone to tinker with or to add features. I did notice that the version number of the generated app says 1.0, when you refer to it as 2.0 on the GitHub to distinguish it from your earlier commercial versions. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2023-08-13 21:06 | tkmantis | New Issue | |
| 2023-08-13 21:06 | tkmantis | Status | new => assigned |
| 2023-08-13 21:06 | tkmantis | Assigned To | => admin |
| 2023-08-14 09:22 | admin | Note Added: 0000753 | |
| 2023-09-05 02:52 | tkmantis | Note Added: 0000754 | |
| 2025-11-23 06:01 | tkmantis | Note Added: 0000786 | |
| 2025-11-23 06:23 | admin | Note Added: 0000787 | |
| 2025-11-24 05:19 | tkmantis | Note Added: 0000791 |
