Adium 1.4b18/1.3.11?

[Eric Richie]

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:42 AM, John Bailey <rekkanoryo at rekkanoryo.org> wrote:
> On 04/23/2010 11:27 AM, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. wrote:
>>> I must confess to being a complete novice when it comes to integration of a new libpurple version into our code base, but seeing the relatively large numbers of patches which are necessary to fix security and compatibility issues in our existing version, I wonder if it wouldn't be better to pull the new version of the library and do both a 1.3.11 and a 1.4B18 release with it.  (Of course, I defer to the experts on the wisdom of that path).
>>
>> Doing a major libpurple version upgrade on the 1.3 branch would be a large undertaking; I definitely don't think it's worth doing.  A minimal release with the plucked changes to fix some protocol breakages seems reasonable, and it should easy enough to do.
>
> "Should" and "are" are two different things in this case.  The Gadu-Gadu and
> Yahoo changes are much more in-depth than I expected and will take at least a
> couple hours for me, and I'm the idiot that put them in im.pidgin.pidgin and
> im.pidgin.adium.1-4 in the first place ;)  These revisions don't pluck cleanly
> and lead to merge hell in the gg prpl (conflicts in every file) and will result
> in a broken build for Yahoo without additional post-merge changes.  It might
> actually be easier in terms of actual work expended to just ship the same
> libpurple for 1.3 and 1.4.
>
> If it's still desired to backport these changes, I will have to defer this until
> the weekend, when I'll actually have time to take a look at it in-depth.  I may
> be able to dissect the Gadu-Gadu changes into smaller changes to ease that
> burden, but it will almost certainly be easier (for me, anyway) to ignore
> monotone's pluck facility and just backport the Yahoo stuff the old-fashioned
> way.  (This is because all the changes necessary are written for libpurple 2.7.0
> and need backported to libpurple 2.5.9 for Adium 1.3.)
>
> John

Ugh, that's what I was afraid of...

I know that the overwhelming majority think we should just leave 1.3
to rot and when Evan and I discussed this we both expressed our desire
to do 1.3.11 ONLY if it would be as simple as just plucking a few
changes and releasing.  I'm not too worried about the Gadu stuff, I
just wanted to get Y! fixed up.

If we're able to release 1.4 at the end of next week like we had
planned that takes care of everyone except for those still using
Tiger.  Looking at the Sparkle stats, we only have 178 people (of
those choosing to allow statistics to be submitted) that run Y! Japan.
This coupled with the less than 10% of our users still on Tiger means
that (statistically) we're only screwing about 20 people.  With that
low a number, I don't really think it's worth the time investment to
do it.

-Eric