[Adium-devl] Leopard Tickets

[David Smith]

On Jun 13, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

>
> On Jun 13, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Eric Richie wrote:
>
>> Obviously we can't commit fixes for the issues mentioned and it's  
>> also
>> possible that the issue itself could change before it goes final.   
>> Should we
>> just make an official policy of closing them as invalid and telling  
>> the
>> submitter to reopen it one release day if it's still a problem, or  
>> should we
>> keep them around for those of you running Leopard to maintain  
>> locally and
>> then commit as soon as it's no longer NDA'd (yes, I know, October  
>> is a VERY
>> long time from now so I don't really like this idea either).  Just  
>> looking
>> for some additional input on this issue.
>
> Fixing Leopard bugs is not a violation of the NDA.  Revealing non- 
> public information, however, is.  Since, generally speaking, all  
> programs which run on 10.4 should be able to also run on 10.5 so  
> long as they are not (a) using deprecated APIs which were removed in  
> 10.5 or (b) taking advantage of coincidental bugs or internal APIs  
> of 10.4 which are fixed/changed in 10.5, it should be the case that  
> all crashes in 10.5 can be fixed using only 10.4-compatible code.   
> The betas exist so that programs are compatible with Leopard from  
> Day 1 of its release.
>
> If the crash is a result of a 10.5 beta bug, of course, it's a  
> different story -- one hopes the issue itself would change before  
> 10.5 is final.  Such crashes should be milestoned "Waiting on Apple"  
> with a note that this appears to be a 10.5 regression; a developer  
> with official access to the Leopard builds should file a radar and  
> note the radar number in that ticket.
>
> -Evan

How about private APIs we use on 10.4 that no longer exist on 10.5,  
but do have a new public version in 10.5? :(

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				David
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