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Rev 332 and the start of Conference season

I just checked in a bunch of work that I have been doing over the last week (parts even longer), so it is time for more testing. The two big changes for most people are that InstaUp2Date now has a new way of reporting that is much more concise, and that InstaUp2Date now searches the source folders recursively, so you can have things inside folders if you want to. There might well be bugs crawling around in there as I only wrote a limited amount of tests to cover that code. This might solve some bugs that people were reporting, but also might not... I need to write tests for those cases. However, this is going to bring up a nasty issue when people are using multiple copies of something, each with an attached InstallerChoices.xml file: I think that relative paths will be searched first, but have not tested that, so it is possible for InstaUp2Date to find a copy of what you are looking for other than the one you mean to specify, and when InstaDMG gets to it it will get the one next to an incorrect InstallerChoices.xml file. I do have a long-term solution for this, but it is still a ways off. I intend to write the tests to tell me that relative paths are working the way I think they are (and fix the cases where they are not), but that will wait until I have had some sleep... I am going to try to next focus on a couple of bug fixes (now that my version of the repository looks like a normal version... and is back to working) to clean out some things reported here and on the bug-tracker, and I am going to try and complete another change in modularizing InstaUp2Date, but then I am going to have to take a break from active development as I need to get my presentations ready for the [url=http://macsysadmin.se/2010/Home.html]MacSysAdmin[/url] (Gothenburg, Sweden at the end of September) and the url=http://www.mactech.com/conference/about]MacTech[/url] (LA in November) conferences. If any of you are on the fence about going to either I would encourage you to go. MacSysAdmin was a great conference last year that I am looking forward to being at again this year, and I really have high hopes for the inaugural MacTech conference. Take a look at the speakers list for either conference and you will see why I need to put in a lot fo time on my presentations: the other speakers are brilliant!
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