[Adium-devl] Brief explanation on the flurry of "Purple" commits

[Evan Schoenberg]

Check out http://pidgin.im, the new home of the instant-messenger- 
formerly-known-as-Gaim.

Gaim is henceforth "Pidgin" -- a really awesome name for an instant  
messaging client.  Note also that our ideological ties to Gaim have  
strengthened in the name change... Adium's a duck, Gaim's a Pigeon,  
and the text-based client based on libgaim is now "Finch". I for one  
welcome our avian overlords :)

Through the name change, 'libgaim' has also gained life of its own.   
The library which previously we were hacking together out of parts of  
the Gaim source is now an independent entity (as of Gaim 2.0.0b6,  
actually).  Accordingly, since it is more than just the library  
powering gaim, it has its own name now: libpurple.  (This is a play  
off 'prpl', which is what a libpurple protocol plugin is called).

This evening – a breath of free time at last, and I desperately  
needed some sit-doing-nothing-important-but-something-productive time  
–  I moved all Gaim references in source code and in the file system  
in trunk and adium-1.0 to Purple.

Cheers,
Evan
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