Hi, Please refer to http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=7237 ICQ in pidgin not working
This bug has been resolved in pidgin 2.5.5. BR, Elaine Vladimir wrote: > Hi folks! > > On March, 9 my Pidgin couldn't connect to the ICQ server complaining that the > version I use is too old and directing me to pidgin.im. I visited Pidgin's > official web site and found out that there are no binaries for OpenSolaris. > So I have downloaded the sources of the latest version and tried to build > them. I was not successful in this effort - the build script ended up with an > error telling me that I must have development headers for GLIB. I have GLIB > installed, so I don't know how to get the development headers for it. I > launched the Package Manager with a hope that I can get the latest update > from the repository but there is still only Pidgin 2.5.1 (while the latest > one is already 2.5.5). So could anyone tell me when the newest Pidgin will be > available in the repository? > > I believe that the original problem is caused by the changes AOL regularly > makes in the OSCAR protocol for the past months in order to win the battle > with 3d-party ICQ clients - you can read about it in the "Pressure on > unauthorized clients" chapter of this article in Wikipedia: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ. One of the last moves was "blocking all > unofficial clients from CIS countries", so Russian users of Pidgin seems were > hurt by this impact. So, frankly speaking, I'm doubting that the latest > version of Pidgin can fix the problem. If I'm right and the issue is caused > by the AOL's intentional actions, it needs to be reproduced by the > OpenSolaris developers to be fixed. > I believe that all Russian users of Opensolaris would really appreciate it if > you investigated the issue and made it possible to update Pidgin via the > Package Manager. > Thank you in advance for your efforts. >
