[Adium-devl] Parental Controls

[Joe Ranieri]

> Well, unfortunately, I think we'd have to wait until 10.5 is  
> actually out, since an open-source project adopting Leopard APIs  
> now would spoil Apple's secrets.

Well, it could be written now and perhaps distributed to those of us  
who have Leopard?

> Perhaps implement it as a plug-in? Then you would work on it in  
> your own Adium check-out (perhaps using SVK to version it locally),  
> then submit the patch when 10.5 comes out, without having to worry  
> *too* much about Adium's code changing out from under you. (It's a  
> risk anyway, but less so than working on Adium itself.) It would  
> also help make it optional, since those of us who don't need  
> parental controls could pass on installing the plug-in.

Hm, yeah. A plugin would be a sensible way to go.

> Will you be at WWDC, or are you referring to the future, when 10.5  
> is available for public consumption?

Unfortunately I won't be at the WWDC. I was gonna take a stab at this  
with the current Leopard seed, but apparently it's not exposed yet...  
So I'll wait for the beta :-(.

-- Joe Ranieri