[Adium-devl] Of Spotlight, Tiger, and Panther

[Colin Barrett]

Does anybody have any good data on the number of users using 10.3?

-Colin

On Mar 20, 2006, at 8:30 AM, Ofri Wolfus wrote:

> Why not to just drop 10.3 support?
>
> - Ofri
>
> On 20/03/2006, at 03:10, Augie Fackler wrote:
>
>> The new log viewer (when the Spotlight importer decides to behave)
>> is nicely functional, but sadly it breaks Adium on 10.3. The only
>> clean-ish solution that I've found to this at the moment is to use
>> loadable bundles so that the Adium binary itself never actually
>> directly links against the Spotlight functions in SearchKit.
>>
>> The options that I see are as follow:
>> 1) Build a mini-class in a plugin that has some class methods that
>> wrap themselves around the SK functions we need, and load it only
>> if NSApp reports YES on -isOnTigerOrBetter
>> 2) Build a pair of LogViewerController classes, put each one in a
>> separate plugin, and then load the correct one based on which
>> version of the OS we're on. (Note: this looks like it will result
>> in some code duplication).
>> 3) Find some way to weak link against SearchKit, but it looks like
>> the only "clean" way to do that is to weak link against
>> CoreServices, which I get the strange feeling is a Bad Idea.
>>
>> I'm perfectly capable of and willing to implement option 1, and I
>> think I can have it done in only a few minutes. I've got ready
>> access to a Panther machine for the next week, so if I don't hear
>> anything back, I'll just do option 1 until I've got a working
>> binary on 10.3.
>>
>> -AF
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