Besides offering above mentioned applications, Smith Micro also offered StuffIt SDK, a framework that could handle archiving/expanding task with most widely used archiving and compression formats at the time. Most importantly, there wasn’t any library or framework built into the system, which could handle those tasks. Few others were coming from old MacOS 8/9 and ported to macOS using Carbon framework, but they were not widely used. Our application overhaul process finally came to haunt us and ultimately expel StuffIt SDK this spring, with the introduction of our own archiving engine based on libarchive.”Īt the time Path Finder gained the ability to archive/compress and expand/decompress archives, the most used program on macOS for such purposes was StuffIt Expander (used for expanding and bundled with OS installation) and StuffIt Deluxe (which could also handle archiving) from Smith Micro Software. “We were busy adding new features and capabilities, and we rarely gave any thought about archiving because it was already functioning very well. A huge change like this deserves a few lines of history. So what is the big news in this version? Continuing our pursuit for better performance, reliability, and modern code base, we replaced outdated StuffIt SDK with our own archiving engine based on system libraries and frameworks already built-in into the system. Moreover, since it is not a new major version, we released it for free to our community of over 100k users. Even though it doesn’t bring the required amount of innovation and changes to justify a significant version bump, it still brings a lot of new fundamental things, which deserves a dedicated blog post. We continue that process with version 8.5. The PF 8 update added all the new features that were needed to bring Path Finder into modern days of ever-changing macOS. As you can read here, with that version, we started a long overdue process of overhauling the entire application. Thanks for your understanding, support and patience.More than a year ago, we introduced Path Finder: Version 8. If you want to continue Path Finder 10 but you don’t have it anymore, you can download it on our support page, just scroll down and you’ll see it. However, with your PF10 license you can continue using version 10 indefinitely. Only then you’ll need to purchase the subscription, but only if you want to use latest versions. You can use your existing PF10 license with newer versions of Path Finder until it’s one year old. We definitely take into considerations all feedback we get and we’ll act accordingly. We’re really sorry we had to introduce those changes, but we wanted to see how it would work, as times for the small independent software companies are constantly getting tougher. Sorry about that…įor the new versions of Path Finder (as of version 2121, released mid-February), we introduced licensing based on subscription. I sincerely apologise for such delayed response, I was browsing through old issues and only now this has come to my intention. The irony is I’d’ve continued to pay $30 for each major release, but refuse to be drawn into a subscription model, even if the total cost is the same. If I understand this email correctly, the answer to the question is that the last version that worked will continue to work, but you won’t get any new versions.Īs for me, I’m sorry be leaving Cocoatech and Path Finder behind after so many years. I got this response today (18-April-2022) to the email I sent to Cocoatech back in February that I think answers your question.
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