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

[Eric Richie]

On Aug 5, 2008, at 6:43 PM, Colin Barrett <timber at lava.net> wrote:

> 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.

The original plan had been to drop 10.4 for 2.0 when we did the v/v  
support since it would have been nearly impossible without doing so.  
However at this point I'm just not seeing v/v on the horizon just  
yet.  My concern would be the PR hit we'd take by releasing a 2.0 that  
didn't include it.

-Eric