Releasing a New Adium Beta?

[Eric Richie]

On Mar 4, 2011, at 9:21 PM, John Bailey wrote:

> On 03/04/2011 08:58 PM, Eric Richie wrote:
>> On Mar 4, 2011, at 8:48 PM, John Bailey wrote:
>>> Yes, a new libpurple build will enable MSNP16 and MPOP.  You'll also get
>>> complaints that file transfer, buddy icons, and adding buddies no longer works.
>>> It's probably not a good idea to push that to Adium's users yet.
>> 
>> Thanks John, I think pretty much settles it as far as I'm concerned. Do you guys currently have a target set yet for those fixes?
> 
> You should know better than to ask that question :-P
> 
> No, we don't have a target set.  These bugs were supposed to be fixed for 2.7.8,
> then that got pushed back to 2.7.9, then to 2.7.10, and it's still not fixed in
> 2.7.11, which is going into string freeze in less than 24 hours.  I'm not
> holding my breath for a speedy resolution unless someone steps forward and
> submits patches to fix the problems.

Heh. Of course I know better... But hey, stranger things have happened right? (Really I just wanted to make sure you didn't already have patches in the pipeline for them already.)

But in all seriousness, those are regressions that I really don't think we want to go introducing if we pushed out 1.4.2 right now. It sounds like we'd end up with more breakage than benefit.

-Eric