Getting Rawr-Endezvous to work with recent Growl framework versions

20050618 Edit: Initially when I wrote this, I were referring to Rawr-Endezvous v0.6b3. In the latest version (0.6b4) the problem I were refering to in this note got fixed. Thank you very much, Jerome. I am impressed that my voice was heard. –stany

I’ve cleanly installed Tiger on my iBook, and then installed latest Growl framework. Sadly rawr-endezvous stopped working. As Adium, etc was happily doing Growl notifications, I figured that the problem is in Rawr-Enedzvous, not in Growl.

It seems that Jeremy Knope basically disappeared off the face of the universe, and didn’t leave forwarding address, so I did a bit of digging, and noticed the following:

stany@gilva:/Applications/extras/Rawr-endezvous.app/Contents/MacOS[06:08 PM]$ otool -L Rawr-endezvous
Rawr-endezvous:
        /System/Library/Frameworks/Cocoa.framework/Versions/A/Cocoa (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 8.0.0)
        /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 218.0.0) 
        /Users/jerome/Library/Frameworks/GrowlAppBridge.framework/Versions/A/GrowlAppBridge (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
        /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 63.0.0)

Next I checked if GrowlAppBridge existed on my system, and noticed that it is now part of Growl.framework, and not part of GrowlAppBridge.framework:

stany@gilva:/Applications/extras/Rawr-endezvous.app/Contents/MacOS[06:10 PM]$ locate GrowlAppBridge
/Library/Frameworks/Growl.framework/GrowlAppBridge
/Library/Frameworks/Growl.framework/Versions/A/GrowlAppBridge
/Library/Frameworks/Growl.framework/Versions/A/Headers/GrowlAppBridge-Carbon.h
/Library/Frameworks/Growl.framework/Versions/A/Headers/GrowlAppBridge.h

So as an interim fix the following works:

stany@gilva:/Library/Frameworks[06:10 PM]$ mkdir -p GrowlAppBridge.framework/Versions/A/
stany@gilva:/Library/Frameworks[06:11 PM]$ cd GrowlAppBridge.framework/Versions/A/
stany@gilva:/Library/Frameworks/GrowlAppBridge.framework/Versions/A[06:11 PM]$ ln -s ../../../Growl.framework/GrowlAppBridge GrowlAppBridge

followed by restarting rawr-endezvous