[Adium-devl] Plugins - Handling different adium's versions

[Zachary West]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Thibault Martin-Lagardette
<dracognizer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys.
> As of Adium 1.3, I discovered my plugin didn't quite work, and was wondering
> why.
> I re-compiled Adium.framework, and when compiling, saw all those warning
> saying my AIAccount object may not respond to
> [AIAccount setStatusObject:forKey:notify:]
> and
> [AIAccount statusObjectForKey:]
> In fact, it now responds to
> [AIAccount setValue:forProperty:notify:]
> and
> [AIAccount valueForProperty:]
> So my problem is, if I don't update the code, it won't work for Adium 1.3
> and higher. If I do update the code, it won't work anymore with 1.2 or less.
> Is there any possible workaround, or do you want everybody to migrate to
> 1.3, discontinuing 1.2.x "support"?

Most of our users[1] stay current. Don't try and design for
compatibility with older versions, but if you want to, you can use
-respondsToSelector.

Zac

[1] http://sparkle.adiumx.com/?year=2008&week=23&graph=bar#appVersion