Apple Pipeline?

[harperska]

Suggestions are that it was originally called pipeline but it's name was changed recently, apparently it can be seen when Steve's doing the demo of Spotlight wehn he types the "Pi" of "Pixar", Pipeline shows up.

I think that that is right. I have a developer friend who was at the WWDC, and he actually got Pipeline on his developer seed of 10.4 rather than Automator. He is currently looking into what the difference is between Pipeline and Automator. I doubt that it will be a regional difference, as the only regions that 10.4 currently exists in are Cupertino and San Francisco.

 

[nologo]

http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/theater/spotlight.html

You can see Pipeline in the Spotlight list in this video as well (again, when typing "Pi")

 

[Dr. Dastardly]

I thought Automater was a more user friendly version of pipeline. A sort of gui where people just add functions of a program from a list and set them up to run one after another automatically. pipeline is about the same thing but more versatile and less gui, used primarily by developers.

 

[mikelr]

Pipeline

Apple Pipeline and automator are the same thing one must be a older name untill it was updated and the name was scraped. pipeline came with the Pre-Release but was changed by apple. Thats why steve did not do the demo for automator at the WWDC because it had been added with a new name at the last minite. See screen shots Pipeline right, Automator left
Automator Screen shot Courtesy of Apple Computer http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/automator.html

 

[qubex]

One thing is for certain, and that is that I can't wait to get my hands on it!

I'm a pretty determined AppleScripter myself, but this looks so damned cute and useful! All the power of AppleScript and none of the pain!

 

[Doctor Q]

I'm a pretty determined AppleScripter myself, but this looks so damned cute and useful! All the power of AppleScript and none of the pain!

I'm another side of the coin - a lousy wannabe Applescripter who could use some quick-and-easy tools to help get some quick tasks done.

 

[Bilvox]

when

so... when should we expect tiger to get a full release?
bueller? bueller?

-b


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http://www.bilvox.com/

 

[ug.mac]

Steve already mentioned this @ WWDC 04', official Tiger release time will be first half of next year.

 

[~Shard~]

Steve already mentioned this @ WWDC 04', official Tiger release time will be first half of next year.

So, in other words, according to my Apple dictionary, "first half of next year" = end of May '05, "release time" = finished product announced, so actual shipping dates when consumers will physically have a copy is August/September. So, Tiger will be out a year from now, just in time for Jobs to preview 10.5 Lion...

 

[kettle]

Opposing viewpoint: This is a terrible idea. If everyone can program this easily, we programmers will be out of a job!

Maybe things like this would add new blood to the "programmers" gene pool. I mean just because I think a piece of software is a bago'****e <cough>windoze</cough> doesn't mean the people programming it are stupid people. There is however a lot of crap software written by professional programmers and a lot of the quality blindness is down to ideas and insecurities that come from the same stable as - If everyone can program this easily, we programmers will be out of a job!

I say if you're worried about cut and paste programmers taking your business, you're in the wrong trade.