[Adium-devl] SystemVersionCheck

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Aug 16, 2006, at 6:33 AM, David Smith wrote:

> 	I'm of the opinion that we need to drop SystemVersionCheck. It's
> breaking multiple things on 10.5, as well as possibly causing weird
> things like the report I just saw on IRC of three Adium.reals running
> (!?), and making it really hard to run with mallocstacklogging on. I
> realize it's a bit harsh to the 10.2 users... but there aren't that
> many of those left.

Chris wrote:
> Are there problems being exhibited on any 10.4 systems besides the
> one you saw on irc? 10.3?
>
> Do we have multiple reports of that one that was shown on irc?

The Adium.real thing is really bizarre and definitely a blocker...  
I've seen reports of that from multiple sources, ever since we went  
to SystemVersionCheck (a couple on the forums, a couple on Trac,  
several more sent to me directly via email or IM), and had it happen  
twice myself.

We can have a reasonably sane error message on 10.2 simply by using  
the LSMinimumSystemVersion Info.plist key, set to 10.3.9. OS X will  
tell the user, "You can use the application 'Adium' with this version  
of OS X".  LSMinimumSystemVersion is broken in 10.3, and works again  
as of 10.4.1according to reports, so the only users who will get no  
help will be 10.3.0-10.3.8 users (who need to do a free upgrade to  
10.3.9).

I would hope there aren't that many 10.3.x where x < 9 users left.   
If SystemVersionCheck causes problems, let's dump it.

-Evan

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