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

[disposable at infinitenexus.com]

A valid, but tangential, point. The issue with the Xfire plugin isn't  
compatibility, it's the [substantial] instability of its libraries  
and its dead development cycle, which is why suppression is being  
considered.

- brian 'bgannin' ganninger

On Nov 12, 2006, at 8:12 PM, Andre-John Mas wrote:

>
> 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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