I don't know whether my opinion counts since I'm not a programmer but I'm against this.
First of all, I hope we get 1.5 out before 10.7 is released – I wouldn't consider that unrealistic – and If I remember correctly the policy applies to OS' that are actually available to the average user, not just developers. Adding to this, in our Sparkle statistics, 21,4% of our users are on 10.5, 5,4% are on 10.4, that's more than a quarter we'd leave behind. Doing that seems unreasonable to me. Incidentally, I spoke to BentMyWookie of the Transmission Project yesterday after I'd seen he'd dropped PPC support. I asked him about that and he told he based that decision on our Sparkle stats which show that less than 4% are on PPC. I also asked him about dropping 10.5 support since last we Adium people talked about this in a meeting we said we'd drop 32bit and 10.5 at the same time. This is what he replied: > 02:33:39 rob-to86: Talk is we might drop 10.5 soon... > 02:33:44 BentMyWookie: really? > 02:33:58 BentMyWookie: what do you want that's 10.6-only? People will probably find a bunch of tech in 10.6 we can profit from but I think my first point stands regardless. In my opinion, we should reconsider dropping support of 10.5 after we have released Adium 1.5. That doesn't mean we can't start taking advantage of 10.6 technology in branches, for example in the case of Audio/Video chat support, right? Regards, Robbie
