[Adium-devl] 10.5

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Aug 12, 2008, at 10:18 PM, Colin Barrett wrote:

> On Aug 9, 2008, at 3:27 PM, David Smith wrote:
>
>> 	GCC 4.2/GCC-LLVM (not sure if there's any benefit for us here. 4.2
>> might have some better warnings and such)
>
> Codegen and compile time in 4.2 are significantly better, and gcc-llvm
> is better on top of that. I would say it's pretty worth it.
>
> I am in favor of more aggressive dropping of older operating systems.
> Adium is a free product developed by a bunch of volunteers in our
> spare time for fun. Anything that makes things unfun (operating
> systems we don't use, for example) should be terminated with maximum
> prejudice. Old versions will continue to work, life will go on.

This could go back and forth forever, but the longer it does, the more  
so the current trend will continue, I think: The arguments for  
continuing 10.4 support grow weaker and weaker.  We're not telling our  
10.4 users to stop using Adium, and the only component of Adium which  
might break suddenly due to external causes -- libpurple -- can be  
updated individually with minimal effort.

Having begun programming for the iPhone, I have fallen in love with  
the new obj-c syntax and conveniences -- imagine never writing a  
simple getter/setter pair for an ivar again! Love, love.

I do think that we should strongly consider backporting of key updates  
once known to be stable; one, for example, will be msnp15.

There's good stuff in 10.5, possibilities which will improve Adium and  
be enjoyable to code.  Pull the trigger. Let's have some fun.

Cheers,
Evan
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