On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Zachary West <[email protected]> wrote: > Agreed, I'm strongly in favor of using msn-pecan in a future release, but > 1.4 needs to get out the door without any extra effort. Largely Twitter is > blocking it right now, but I have a free weekend next week (I think; this > semester ends the first week of May, so I will gain a significant (15+ > hours/week!) increase in free time) where I can sit down, apply the User > List patch, fix the timeline, and hopefully throw out rc1; localizations are > in, the message styles appear almost done, and I don't care about the > contact-list drag/drop meta contact issues enough to block 1.4 on it. > In the mean time, Felipe, you can issue an Adium plugin by loosely > subclassing the ESMSNAccount and implementing an prpl-msn-pecan MSN service; > it shouldn't be that hard to release it as a standard plugin (almost exactly > the same as a Libpurple plugin) and present the advantages to the users for > 1.3 and 1.4 betas without any effort on our part. > We used msn-pecan in the past, and largely switched away for libpurple's MSN > being brought up to par. It's still about the same as it was then, but has > had a host of security exploits as of late, and msn-pecan appears to be at a > higher level of maintenance.
The problem is that msn-pecan uses GLib's mainloop, so it's not so straightforward to provide a plugin like the Skype one. However, this is aimed for 0.2. Cheers. -- Felipe Contreras
