After 17 Years OS X Notifier App 'Growl' Retired

guest · Nov 29, 2020

Growl in Retirement
November 28, 2020
http://336699.org/GrowlRetirement

Growl is being retired after surviving for 17 years. With the announcement of Apple’s new hardware platform, a general shift of developers to Apple’s notification system, and a lack of obvious ways to improve Growl beyond what it is and has been, we’re announcing the retirement of Growl as of today.

It’s been a long time coming. Growl is the project I worked on for the longest period of my open source career.
Click to expand...

For developers we recommend transitioning away from Growl at this point. The apps themselves are gone from the app store, however the code itself still lives. Everything from our rake build system to our code is available for use on our GitHub page
Click to expand...

guest · Nov 29, 2020

growl
https://growl.github.io/growl/

Growl
Growl is a notification system for OS X. Growl has been around since 2004, and was originally called Global Notifications Center. The name was changed to Growl (like the noise a dog makes) since we felt the name Notifications Center was too geeky. We were wrong about that haha.

Growl was meant as a proof of concept which became something more for a long period of time. Before Growl was made developers either had to pop up a very basic window or some other ugliness nobody liked. Working with developers on Adium and Colloquy who wanted to implement their own custom notifications into their applications is what birthed this project.
Click to expand...

Retirement
Growl is a retired project, we couldn’t think of another thing to change which would be substantial enough to bring out a new updated release. Growl is stable and should work for as long as intel based programs work. Anyone who wants to run Growl is free to do so in an unsupported fashion.

Developers who integrated Growl with their application are advised to migrate to Apple’s solution for their application’s notification needs.
Click to expand...

Log in or Sign up

After 17 Years OS X Notifier App 'Growl' Retired

guest Guest

guest Guest

Log in or Sign up

After 17 Years OS X Notifier App 'Growl' Retired

guest Guest

guest Guest

Useful Searches