[Adium-devl] Java-based libraries... a ponder, a thought, an apology

[Andreas Monitzer]

On Dec 08, 2006, at 20:26, Sean Egan wrote:

> You're asking if it's ok for an Adium developer to implement a feature
> in libgaim, without adding anything to the GTK+ UI? Of course!

What about features you're specifically don't want, like the already  
mentioned gateway interaction -- actually forms in general? For me  
that's pretty mandatory for anything that likes to call itself an  
XMPP client, and my plugin implementation sure does support it.
Of course, the way it's implemented (lacking localization support for  
example) is questionable, but I'm a programmer and not a politician!  
This feature is required for doing some very basic stuff in the right  
way like registering a new account, setting up a MUC channel or  
registering at a gateway. The way it's implemented on many clients  
right now is that they do some guesswork at what data the server  
might want to know, which is very frustrating for server developers  
at best (there was some discussion about that on jdev recently, where  
some Psi developer apologized for that), and holds up new development  
in XMPP implementations.

Back to the topic, would it be an issue for you if somebody else  
would implement that right into the code?

Somebody mentioned that the new libgaim-code supports adding new  
features without having to change the libgaim source -- is there some  
documentation about that available somewhere?

andy