[Adium-devl] xblaze (was Adium plug-ins and xtras site)

[Colin Barrett]

Thanks, Andre.

-Colin

On Nov 13, 2006, at 5:42 AM, Andre-John Mas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For your information, I contacted the developer of Xblaze,  
> suggesting that
> he place a notice on the main page of the project and remove the  
> binary.
> He has done so, and it is now available only in source form from his  
> SVN
> site. Hopefully that will help reduce the number of people  
> downloading it
> and expecting it to work without any issues with Adium.
>
> Andre
>
>
> 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.
>>
>>>
>
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