[Adium-devl] Some disclosure and some ideas.

[Colin Barrett]

On Dec 7, 2006, at 2:30 PM, Sean Egan wrote:

> Congratulations on your employment, Colin!
>
> On 12/7/06, Colin Barrett <timber at lava.net> wrote:
>> - MSN. Our MSN support sucks, and it's our most popular protocol.
>> There isn't a whole lot we can do to libgaim, but we should  
>> definitely
>> keep our eyes peeled.
>
> *eyes peeled*
>
> Just an FYI, we have a branch in libgaim that implements MSNP14 with a
> whole bunch of the features, the lack of which I presume warrents your
> "sucks" observation :)
>
> The code needs a lot of work, though, so we decided to put off merging
> it until after Gaim 2.0.0 and keep the less featurful, but stable
> implementation we currently have for that release. After the release,
> that will be probably the first thing I do.

I had heard about the branch, but I assumed it was dead. Good to hear  
that it is going to get cleaned up eventually :)

> Of course, if you guys want to fix it up, and use it, before then...
> less work for me :)

I'd volunteer, but the MSN protocol as it is now is faaaar cry from  
the MSNP2 compatible plugin I half finished for Adium, back before we  
used libgaim, so I'm not sure much of my knowledge would be useful.  
Plus I have a million other things to do :P

-Colin