Frustration at support for 10.3.9 being dropped in 1.1

Wizardling · Post by **Wizardling** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:00 am

I suppose there were good reasons for this (?), but it is frustrating for those of us who prefer to stay one OS version behind. Couldn't this have waited till Leopard was released? Even Apple supports the previous OSX version knowing many people like to play it safe.

Sean · Post by **Sean** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:39 am

No offense but the percentage of Adium users still on Panther is probably not even in the double digits... It just doesn't make much sense to keep support for it at this point IMO. It's holding things back and making it more difficult for the developers.

Besides, Leopard is coming out in just two months anyway. Until then you still have Adium 1.0 which is perfectly fine.

Post by **Crypt** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:12 am

Sean wrote:No offense but the percentage of Adium users still on Panther is probably not even in the double digits... It just doesn't make much sense to keep support for it at this point IMO. It's holding things back and making it more difficult for the developers.

Besides, Leopard is coming out in just two months anyway. Until then you still have Adium 1.0 which is perfectly fine.

Indeed. If any of you are interested in the stats of Adium http://sparkle.adiumx.com/

Post by **Catfish_Man** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:45 am

Wizardling wrote:I suppose there were good reasons for this (?), but it is frustrating for those of us who prefer to stay one OS version behind. Couldn't this have waited till Leopard was released? Even Apple supports the previous OSX version knowing many people like to play it safe.

The intention was to wait until Leopard was released, but Apple delayed Leopard.

Post by **The_Tick** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:06 pm

Also, Adium is developed by people who have very limited time. Supporting 10.3.9 really meant that we had to beg people to test 10.3.9 every time we made a release, due to the fact that none of us have 10.3.9 boxes to test on. Also, it adds more code to the codebase, so that's more work in maintaining the setup, and it was just plain annoying.

For a free application where we have limited everything, a decision was made to drop something that we just didn't need to worry about anymore. 10.3.9 is how old? It would have made the SoC projects last year a lot tougher if we had required students to code towards it.

Dr. Mobius · Post by **Dr. Mobius** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:06 pm

One more reason why October can't get here fast enough...

*grumble*

TheSilverFox06 · Post by **TheSilverFox06** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 8:47 am

Even though there are certainly some significant improvements in 1.1, it's not like there's some super-duper awesome be-all-end-all feature that it has over 1.0.5. I'm sure you can put up with it for 2 more months

Dr. Mobius · Post by **Dr. Mobius** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:30 pm

What's new in 1.0.6? There's nothing about it in the included change log.

Post by **zac** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:46 pm

1.0.6 fixes the Sparkle updater so that the minimumSystemVersion flag can be set.

In other words, it'll stop asking 10.3.9 users to upgrade to 1.1.

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Frustration at support for 10.3.9 being dropped in 1.1

Frustration at support for 10.3.9 being dropped in 1.1

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