Older releases page reading a bit confusing

Peter Hosey boredzo at adium.im
Sun May 17 18:18:37 UTC 2009


On May 17, 2009, at 08:27:50, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
> But it just so happens that 10.3.9 was the last Panther release and  
> therefore anything newer would be Tiger …

And it will probably run just fine on Tiger (and Leopard).

> … an OS already supported by a newer Adium release (latest in this  
> case).

That doesn't matter. That version of Adium should run on all those  
versions of Mac OS X, so the statement is accurate.

Do we have a significant problem with people coming to the home page,  
then wandering into the old-versions list and downloading an old  
version having never touched the latest?

> As for the second heading the message is not as confusing, but maybe  
> they would both read better if they said something like "For Mac OS  
> X Jaguar 10.2.8 or older" and "For Mac OS X Panther 10.3.9 or  
> older". I believe the range overlap would be much clearer if stated  
> backwards.

But releases that require 10.3.9 or newer won't run on 10.3.8.





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