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

[George Armah]

Robert Vehse wrote:
> Am 06.08.2008 um 00:43 schrieb Colin Barrett:
>
>   
>> On Aug 5, 2008, at 3:13 PM, 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?
>>>       
>> I agree. I think we should be conservative about small changes and bug
>> fixes, since the more churn the more chance there will be a
>> regression. However I think the MSNp15 switch, for example, should
>> definitely be backported.
>>
>> Here's a some food for thought:
>>
>> Let's call our Leopard-only version of Adium 2.0. We can have 1.3 be
>> small changes and fixes. When/if we switch to MSNp15, call that
>> release 1.4.
>>
>> A change in minimum system requirements is as good a reason as any to
>> up the major version number.
>>
>> -Colin
>>     
>
> Hi,
> I'm not a dev but as a Tiger and PPC user I'd like to add my two cents:
>
> In my opinion 1.4 should be the last version to support Tiger.
>   
I'm seconding this opinion. Adium is one of those Apps that once you 
find hard to do
without once you get used to it. I don't think there are any other
applications for Mac OS X that do what you are doing in the
way you do it. Its quite likely that some of your users haven't switched
to 10.5 simply because they have had no reason to.

A shiny new Adium version with new features  and 10.5 only support
would (IMHO) be reason enough for some of your users to switch to 10.5
(I know of at least one user for which this would hold true).


George.




> It would be nice to round off the Adium experience as we know it in  
> now from 1.3 which means it would feature:
> - Get Info inspector polish
> - MSNP15
> - Sparkle 1.5
> and perhaps
> - IRC
> - Zac's redo of the Events system.
> If privacy improvments should follow later, it would be good as for  
> example the ICQ invisible state and invisible/visible list is  
> something I read a lot of complaints about.
>
> Features such as
> - contacts in multiple groups
> - CSS in WKMV
> - of course, v/v
> are out of scope for 1.4.
>
>
> Cheers, Robby
>
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