[Adium-devl] Adium 1.2 is feature locked

[David Smith]

On Aug 4, 2007, at 7:46 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

>
> On Aug 4, 2007, at 10:33 PM, Augie Fackler wrote:
>
>> I'm going to add some functionality (hackish) to the contact
>> controller to fix a bug CFM and I found in the new search field. Just
>> a heads up, it's needed to fix the feature.
>
> I saw some pretty crazy behaviors today in 1.2svn which I believe  
> are caused by the search functionality.  -[AIListGroup addObject:],  
> as a side effect, removes the object from its previous group. I  
> believe the buggage stems from that fact... being able to have  
> contacts in multiple groups at some level may be required for the  
> searching to work as it is currently implemented.  The result -  
> after doing a search, clearing the search, and leaving for multiple  
> hours - was as pictured:
> <Picture 2.png>

This also causes a nasty memory leak (or a crash if the leak is  
fixed), which is how Augie and I discovered it. The 'solution' is to  
create a group subclass that doesn't claim ownership of its contents.  
The real solution is to rewrite the contact controller, which we've  
been discussing plans for, but that's longer term.

					David