[Adium-devl] [Adium-feedback] I would like to port Adium to Windows XP

[Christopher Forsythe]

Hi Geo,

This is honestly the first offer to port to Windows that I think we can 
take seriously. If you are fine with 2 codebases, I think we can 
definitely work with you on it. If you wouldn't mind expanding on any 
points you may have left out, go ahead and do it now.

Chris


Geoffrey Elliott wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My name is Geoffrey Elliott. I recently sold my small software company 
> to Google (we had a product similar to Konfabulator) and am looking 
> for a fun personal side project. I was previously a developer at 
> Microsoft for about 8 years working on projects as diverse as the 
> Windows Shell, Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer 5, and more.
>
> I absolutely love Adium on my Mac and I’m absolutely sad that it 
> doesn’t exist on Windows. Of course, I have the means of making it 
> happen so instead of whining about it, I’d like to know if I can try.
>
> A couple of notes about more philosophy on porting:
>
> 1. It wouldn’t’ be straight port. Menu items/features would be changed 
> to make it more Windows-natural. Although the spirit of the 
> application would be preserved, I wouldn’t want to make the same 
> mistake MSFT did when they released that terrible Office for the Mac 
> release that looked just like Windows.
>
> 2. I’m not interested in “portable” code. Although it might make sense 
> for some components to be portable, I don’t believe in #ifdef WINDOWS 
> #ifdef MAC. I’m fine with two codebases.
>
> In any event, I’d be interested in exploring this idea with you folks. 
> Either way, GREAT JOB.
>
> - g
>