On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 11:52:18PM -0000, Amit Singh wrote:
> First off, I'd strongly encourage you not to support MacFUSE versions
> older than 1.0.0. It's not that I'm oblivious to the users' perceived
> "inconvenience" in upgrading, but MacFUSE was quite volatile in its
> early days. If developers provide the means to support older, worse
> versions, that results in poorer user experience and extra support
> issues for me that I don't want to (can't/won't) deal with. From now
> on, MacFUSE (and its options) won't change as drastically as before,
> so really, try to make 1.0.0 your minimum requirement. A MacFUSE
> upgrade is really easy--small download, no reboot required.

Thanks for this note. My interest then is in ensuring the user has
at least version 1.0, so that permissions will work correctly.


<snip>
> *Now*, please forget all these ways. The only appropriate way is for
> me to provide you a function to do that. I'll add it in the next
> release.

Sounds great! Looking forward to it.

You might consider a compile time check, too? This would let the build
process detect whether the macfuse version is too old, which might be useful?

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