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

[Ofri Wolfus]

 From omni's statistics page (http://update.omnigroup.com/) - 5.4% of  
the users are using pather while 94.3% use tiger.

- Ofri

On 20/03/2006, at 16:28, Colin Barrett wrote:

> 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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