[Adium-devl] GSoC 2007 student branches

[Michael]

Colin Barrett wrote:
>
> On May 30, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Michael wrote:
>
>> OK, how about this:
>>
>> - Create a 1.0.5 beta that consists of 1.0.4 plus the libpurple update.
>> No other changes that might pose a risk.
>> - Have the usual suspects test and dogfood it.
>> - Instead of the usual releasing 'when it's ready', test some more, and
>> wait...
>> - Wait until 1.1 is out and all Tiger users can upgrade to that, all
>> 1.0.5. beta testers will move to 1.1 as well.
>> - When 1.1 is out, Panther users can have their last update to 1.0.5.
>> which might just be the most beta-tested Adium ever ;-)
>>
>> Michael
>
> So push 1.0.5 beta now with purple changes, and leave it in beta until 
> 1.1 and then do a dual release? Sounds pretty good, but: Are there 
> semantics in sparkle for not upgrading someone who is on an OS we no 
> longer support? If not, we'll need to do 1.0.5 anyway to add that. We 
> don't want a 10.3 user having Adium be horked because they download 1.1.
>
> How did we do this for 0.89.1 -> 1.0?
>
> -Colin
>
>
Yes, a dual release. Or 1.0.5 shortly after 1.1 but only for 10.3 users
as the others will have skipped/moved to 1.1.

I don't know about Sparkle's inner workings, I believe this will be the
first time Adium hits this as -IIRC- Sparkle was introduced in 1.0 (betas).

Michael