[Adium-devl] 1.0.7?

[Evan Schoenberg]

Quoting Chris Forsythe <chris at growl.info>:

> Peter Hosey wrote:
>
>> One of the bugs that was fixed in libpurple 2.1.2 was our #7774:
>>
>>     http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/7774
>>     “Yahoo!Chat has recently instituted a new feature that requires
>> the  chatter to click a link and verify that they are not a bot
>> before  they can get into a room. Currently, Adium can't get into
>> rooms at  all and doesn't provide this link to click on.”
>>
>> Now, 1.1.3 will include libpurple 2.2, which I assume includes the
>> 2.1.2 fix. But this leaves the Panther people out in the cold.
>>
>> So, here's my idea: we put libpurple 2.1.2 into the 1.0 branch and
>> release it as 1.0.7, so people can continue using their Yahoo! chats.
>>
>> The alternatively, of course, is to take a hard line and tell people
>> that they must upgrade to Tiger (buying a new Mac if necessary) to
>> continue to use Yahoo! chats in Adium.
>>
>
> I'd prefer that we hardline it. We're going to have to do it now, or do
> it later, and I'd prefer to just do it now.

A 1.0.7 at some point isn't a bad idea, in my opinion, but we  
definitely should only be issuing updates to deprecated Adium release  
series for (1) major security issues and (2) major connectivity losses.

A 1.0.x release with a libpurple 2.2.x build seems reasonable given  
that it fixes Yahoo chats and MSN HTTP connectivity, both of which are  
show-stoppers for users depending on those features,, but we're faced  
with a few implementation problems:
  1) Libpurple.framework's subversion repo was modified to build for  
10.4+.  Someone would need to go back to it building for 10.3 and then  
update libpuprle to 2.2.x, or branch the existing one for a 10.3+ build.
  2) libpurple has gone through a minor increment (2.1 to 2.2) since  
1.0.x, so various API changes need to be applied

I'd prefer to spend development time on getting 1.1.3 out the door  
soon and 1.2 ready for beta and release not long after, but if someone  
with a special place in his (or her) heart for 10.3 users wants to  
tackle the above issues, go for it :)

-Evan.

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