[Adium-devl] Leopard Tickets

[Andre-John Mas]

On 13-Jun-07, at 17:49 , David Smith wrote:

>
> On Jun 13, 2007, at 2:44 PM, Sean Egan wrote:
>
>> On 6/13/07, David Smith <catfish.man at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Aside from everyone at wwdc and all the internal apple users, we'd
>>> like to not crash-on-launch the day the OS is released.
>>
>> Just make your release at a few seconds past midnight!
>
> That would still lead to probably the highest crash rate of any
> release we've ever done, due to the existing installed base.
>
>>
>>
>>> Chris proposes
>>> a possible 4th solution though, which is to simply turn off the
>>> offending functionality when running on 10.5. Losing features
>>> temporarily is way way more acceptable than just not working. If
>>> nothing else turns up today, I will be committing that "solution"
>>> tomorrow.
>>
>> You won't be hearing from my lawyers with that plan.
>
> That's good, because they wouldn't have a case if we did hear from
> them with this plan.
>

Is there any way to have sparkle signal a mandatory update? Basically
sparkle would warn that a critical upgrade is available and that
whatever the current version of Adium will not run, and refuse to
run, on 10.5. I realise it is a bit of a harsh approach, but it is
certainly another one to choose from.

Andre