It's been a week since I have released HoudahSpot 2: Leopard Edition.

Actually such a major release is a process which spans over several days. Of course there is some preparation. E.g. the web site was updated long before the actual release. Even after the cut off date there is still some work to do. I for one send out complimentary licenses to all the people who I feel deserve some recognition. These are mainly people whose code somehow ended up in the application. Then there are the download sites. Minor fights with one of them…

And then there is the wait. For reasons beyond my knowledge HS2 made it to Apple's Downloads page only yesterday. There is also the wait for initial reactions and reviews to which you may want to react.

With all that done, I am free to move on to the next project. I have decided not to start an all new project until after Macworld.

That means an update to HoudahGeo is in order. The question I have been trying to answer for close to two days now is "which update?".

Well, there are some minor Leopard quirks and one bug introduced by a change of API behavior. So I could tackle those and do a 1.2.9 release this week.

I could also have a list at the long long list of feature ideas and requests and do like 1/3 of them and call the result HoudahGeo 1.3 or 1.5. Or I could just do both. A bug fix release tomorrow, followed by a major update in a couple week's time.

And then there is all the stuff I would love to do. That would probably be worth a version jump to 2.0. Now I would love to have that ready in the Macworld timeframe. But that seems somewhat unlikely.

BTW, don't hesitate to drop me an email if you'd like to beta test HoudahGeo 1.3, 1.5 or 2.0.