159273 - Needs to test for, and show warning dialog about minimum system requirements

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Chimera 0.4 doesn't run on 10.0.4. We need to test the OS version at startup,
and, if it's too old, put up a dialog saying so (if we can get that far).

Comment 1

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

hrm, if we're failing with dyld errors at startup, we may not get that far. do
we have any 10.0.x boxes in QA?

Comment 2

[Winnie Lam]

Not sure if we do... I do have an external hard drive with a few extra
partitions that I can install 10.0 in though.  I believe there's a 10.0 CD
floating around in QA somewhere.  Or Simon, do you have the install disk?

Comment 3

[Chris Petersen]

I have 10.0 CD at my desk should I just install on my spare partition ?

Comment 4

[Chris Petersen]

Ok, I finally did get 10.0.4 installed on my portable 5 gig smartdisk drive. 
Verifying Chimera attempts to launch then immediately quits without 
informing the user why.

Comment 5

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

so how do we 'weak link' against a framework?

Comment 6

[ender.mb]

Didn't we add a dialog for <10.2 systems in the trunk a while back? Is this bug
still valid?

Comment 7

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Mike, you'd know if we added a dialog for 10.1 and before. Did we?

Do we necessarily care? I think most people are on 10.2 and up, plus we have a
message on our website stating it and will be fairly blunt about the
requirements for 0.9/1.0.

Comment 8

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Josh and Mark were just looking at this for Fx and I think they came to the same
conclusion as Mike in comment 1.  Unless of course comment 6 is correct.

Comment 9

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

we won't even launch on 10.1 because we link against the abook framework. we
won't even get to the point where we'd show the dialog.

WONTFIX. we just need to make sure we're more explicit on the d/l page and
accompanying documentation in the disk image.