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

[Colin Barrett]

Did The Omni Group suddenly buy Adium when I wasn't looking?

-Colin

On Mar 20, 2006, at 9:51 AM, Ofri Wolfus wrote:

> 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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