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

[David Clark]

To add to the fire, check this poll:

http://www.macosxhints.com/pollbooth.php?qid=whichosxver&aid=-1

Admittedly skewed, again, but it has a similar distribution to Ofri's  
link.

Dave

On Mar 20, 2006, at 10:18, Ofri Wolfus wrote:

> You weren't asking about Adium's users base :-P
> Since Omni's products are widely used, I think these statistics can
> be assumed to be close to the truth, but it's only my opinion...
> Besides, I don't have any other statistics ;)
> Perhaps we can check the bug reports to get an idea about Adium's
> users base?
>
> - Ofri
>
> On 20/03/2006, at 17:10, Colin Barrett wrote:
>
>> 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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