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

[Andre-John Mas]

On 12-Nov-06, at 20:46 , disposable at infinitenexus.com wrote:

>
> 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.

This make me wonder whether we should take a leaf out of Mozilla's  
book and have plugins explicity
specify what version of Adium its has been tested with? The idea  
being that the user is made explicitly
aware that a given plugin may crash Adium, or we could even disable  
plugins that have not updated their supported version flags.

Andre

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