Upcoming Changes to the Install Process
There will be some changes to the demo and the way you install Cork in the next few releases
Hey all, I hope you’re having a nice day.
I wanted to give you a heads-up about some upcoming changes to Cork.
The Demo
Until now, the Cork demo has been a really, really old version. This made some users, who were expecting some of the newer features, confused.
This is why the demo will soon be the latest version, time-limited to 7 days.
The Licensing
Cork will always be a one-time purchase. This is not changing, so don’t worry.
There will be a slight change to the way licenses are validated. When you first start up Cork, you’ll need to put the email you bought Cork with into a license field, and Cork wil check if it’s associated with a purchase.
This is pretty much the same as most other software does it, just without annoying license keys. Your email will be your license key.
I repeat, nothing about the licensing itself is changing. Cork is still a one-time purchase, that you can install on as many Macs as you’d like.
The Tap
This is not 100% confirmed yet, but I’d like Cork to be available from the built-in Cask repo.
Okay, so what’s the plan?
These changes will not happen overnight. It will be a multi-step process:
In the next Cork version, you’ll get notified about the licensing validation changing. You’ll already be able to put in your email into a provisional license field, which will check if your email is correct.
If it says that your email can’t be found, you should send me an email to dev@corkmac.app and we’ll get it fixed; I’ve been migrating the current licensing storage to a new location, and unfortunately, I had to use LOCAL OCR software to transcribe all the emails (don’t worry, I repeat, it was a LOCAL OCR software that did not share your data with any third party), so there might be some typos.In the version after that, the licensing validation will fully change and you’ll now be required to put your email into the license checking field. Once it’s checked, you’ll have access to Cork the same way as before.
Some time in the future, Cork will hopefully be included in the default Cask repo.
If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to reach out to me at dev@corkmac.app, through Mastodon, Discord or Twitter.
I've emailed you, since mine was not found. I'm curious as to why you'd use an OCR software to go through Emails, when you could either just use a tiny piece of software to extract the individual email information from the emails or actually use macOS built-in features to get the text strings from any form of electronic picture (even with third-party apps like TextSniper).