[Adium-devl] 10.5

[Christopher Forsythe]

Is the sparkle in 1.3 and below able to handle being told "if 1.2, do not
update to 1.4"?

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Ryan Govostes <rgovostes at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Aug 10, 2008, at 2:12 AM, Dan wrote:
>
> > It sounds like a lot of good excuses, er a reasons, to drop Tiger
> > have been outlined in this thread - all in the name of making
> > development easier.  But what about the product itself?  Are there
> > that many features you want to implement that can ONLY be done in
> > Leopard?  You're talking about dumping of over a HUNDRED THOUSAND
> > users.  Doesn't seem to me like "easy" is a very good justification
> > for that.
>
> Leopard has and Snow Leopard will bring significant changes to the way
> we interact with the system. We must implement these changes as Apple
> has deprecated and will eventually remove the old APIs.
>
> Many of the changes Apple has made in Leopard and Snow Leopard are to
> making developing applications easier, and make the resulting
> applications faster and more capable. The sooner we implement the
> necessary changes, the sooner we can develop using new technologies
> like Core Animation, new QuickTime APIs, 64-bit applications, and
> garbage collection. Most of these aren't new features that can be
> "ONLY" done in Leopard; they're fundamental to how we interact with
> the system to implement new features on top of.
>
>
> Adium 1.3 will always run in Tiger, and maybe Adium 1.4 will too. But
> if Apple pulls in one direction we cannot resist or we risk not being
> able to run in future operating systems at all. Even if we delay in
> updating, it just creates more work for us further down the road. It's
> not not trivial to straddle the gap.
>
> Regards,
> Ryan Govostes
>
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