[Adium-devl] Supported Versions of 10.4

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Apr 20, 2008, at 3:49 AM, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:

> On Apr 20, 2008, at 12:04 AM, Eric Richie wrote:
>
>> On Apr 19, 2008, at 11:57 PM, David Smith wrote:
>>
>>> 	Peter notes that the new options added in http://trac.adiumx.com/changeset/23186
>>> don't work (although not in any catastrophic way) in 10.4.10 or
>>> earlier, due to relying on newer versions of WebKit. That raised the
>>> question of which versions of 10.4 we support.

I have no problem with Adium 1.3 requiring 10.4.11 or later.  It's  
reasonable to ask 10.4 users to have upgraded to .11.

>> Actually I think it might be getting to the point where we consider
>> how much longer we want to continue supporting 10.4 in general.  Yes,
>> I realize that would do away with the current-1 principle but I think
>> it's something we might want to start thinking about.
>>
>> -Eric
>
> 	According to Sparkle data (http://www.adiumx.com/sparkle/#osVersion)
> you still have about 45% of your user base running on any version of
> Tiger, which pretty much amounts to half of Adium users (or at least
> of those who have opted in on Sparkle), so I'd say pulling the rug
> from underneath them might be a bit too harsh still, in my opinion.
> Taking into consideration that by far the largest portion of those are
> on 10.4.11 already (40.83% at the time of posting), requiring Safari 3
> should not be too much of a hassle.

I agree. Having SparklePlus is a great asset in these discussions -  
it's clear the 10.5 has not been adopted heavily enough for it to be  
an insignificant move to push to a 10.5 requirement. We can certainly  
do 10.5-only things and protect them such that you must be running  
10.5 for them to be enabled.

-Evan

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