[Adium-devl] Adium plug-ins and xtras site

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On Nov 12, 2006, at 7:19 PM, Christopher Forsythe wrote:

>
> On Nov 12, 2006, at 6:58 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
>
>>
>> On Nov 12, 2006, at 7:45 PM, Andre-John Mas wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I came across an X-Fire plugin (http://www.kaintek.com/?page_id=18 )
>>> for MacOS X and noticed that it wasn't listed on the "xtras" site,
>>> but at
>>> the same time there doesn't seem to really be a section assigned
>>> to plug-ins.
>>>
>>> Would this be something worth adding, or is the miscallaneous
>>> section sufficient?
>>
>> I'm *this* close to special-casing that plugin such that Adium  
>> always refuses to run it.  According to its author in the forums,  
>> support and development for it has been discontinued.  Its  
>> underlying library crashes very, very often -- even with a tiny  
>> minority of beta users utilizing it, it's still one of the biggest  
>> crashers in our crash reporter on a daily basis.
>
> If it's a pain let's do it. That plugin will make Adium reflect in  
> a poor light.

A guiding principle to stick with :) The one note I would make is  
that the author should be politely informed of our decision and  
reasoning.

>
> Chris
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