[Adium-devl] My status, and some 1.4 planning

[Peter Hosey]

On Aug 05, 2008, at 15:13:04, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
> I've given this some thought... we're not doing our many users any  
> favors by holding back on advancement to maintain 10.4  
> compatibility, but more importantly, we're not doing ourselves any,  
> either.  If moving to 10.5+ would make development faster, more  
> enjoyable, and a better learning experience, we should make the  
> jump.  I think that if we do so we should keep our 10.4 users in  
> mind on the Adium 1.3.x branch, backporting key improvements which  
> don't require massive rewrites to work there, such as a future  
> MSNp15 switch.  What do y'all think?

We should make sure they get bug fixes. They're still more than a  
third of our user base.

The problem is that if we start rewriting stuff with Leopard-only  
APIs, providing bug fixes for Tiger users becomes much, much harder  
(since you have to find the bug twice, and maybe fix it twice).

So I think we should continue with the original plan, of switching to  
10.5-only closer to the release date of 10.6.

> (which I think is the bottleneck)

Shark would like to have a word with you. ☺

>> Comments in the source indicate that the paranoid locking is due to  
>> SearchKit issues.
>
> *grumbles about SearchKit*

Do these problems in SearchKit still exist in Tiger? Do they still  
exist in Leopard?