[Adium-devl] SystemVersionCheck

[Augie Fackler]

I really am of the opinion that our users are (on the whole) smart  
enough to read the "requires 10.3.9" note on our site. Maybe we  
should make *sure* that is in reasonably large letters on the site,  
but I think on the whole it shouldn't be too much of a problem (and  
requiring 10.3.9 is not that uncommon anymore...)

Just my 2¢

Augie
(who now will proceed to finish packing and drive to MI, honest!)

On Aug 16, 2006, at 9:12 AM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

>
> 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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