BeerAlchemy 1.0.3

Today we released a minor release to BeerAlchemy. The main point of this release was to change the program so that it didn't automatically install 'Smart Crash Reports'. There has recently been a lot of discussion about 'Smart Crash Reports' and it seemed to be the consensus that automatic installation was undesirable.

What is it? It's a program that intercepts the usual Mac OS crash reporter mechanism. The usual mechanism doesn't send crash reports to third-party software developers - only to Apple - and Apple doesn't pass them on. 'Smart Crash Reports' gives the user the chance to direct the crash reports to the developer as well as Apple. Obviously this gets bugs fixed quicker.

So what's the problem? Smart Crash Reports uses a mechanism called an input manager and is loaded everytime a Cocoa program loads. Some people are uncomfortable with this. Consequently we have taken the decision to issue an interim release of BeerAlchemy that doesn't install Smart Crash Reports.

If users would like to uninstall 'Smart Crash Reports', they can do this by dragging the 'Smart Crash Reports' folder from '~/Library/Input Managers' to the trash. You may also need to log out and back in again.