I think it's unrealistic to force volunteers to do things that make their lives harder.
If I have a vote, for this. Chris On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Robert Vehse <robert.ve...@freenet.de>wrote: > 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 >
