[Adium-devl] [Adium-feedback] Adding a plugin to Adium repository

[Zachary West]

I'm CCing your response to the Adium developer list.

The only concern I would have with including it by default is the fact  
that it (probably) creates a connection to your server to process the  
URL. It'd have to be a preference of some sort, which isn't always the  
greatest plan. Really this would be a great third party plugin on the  
Xtras site.

A more stable plugin API would definitely help, and allow us to remove  
the plugin warning. To be honest, it's more of an annoyance than  
anything else.

Perhaps somebody else on the dev list will have an idea, opinion or  
suggestion.

Zac
	
On Jul 12, 2008, at 13:52 , Michele Balistreri wrote:

> Indeed we are required to open source it - which is not  a problem.  
> It would be very nice if it could be included by default with Adium  
> or if at least Adium wouldn't complain about the plugin possibly  
> causing the end of the world...
>
> Thank you for your fast reply!
>
> Regards,
> Michele Balistreri
> briksoftware programmer.
>
>
>
> Il giorno 12/07/2008, alle ore 19:47, Zachary West ha scritto:
>
>>
>> On Jul 12, 2008, at 13:45 , Michele Balistreri wrote:
>>
>>> Hello, I'm one of the developers of Snapplr (http://snapplr.com).  
>>> Our service works in taking screenshot and uploading them, giving  
>>> you an URL. As this is to be mainly used with an IM client, and  
>>> our IM of choice is Adium, we developed an Adium plugin which  
>>> recognizes Snapplr's screenshot URLs and displays them inline the  
>>> chat window.
>>>
>>> The problem is that every time Adium is updated, it reports  
>>> plugins as being "unsafe" and so this basically breaks our ability  
>>> to distribute it. As we wouldn't have any problem open sourcing  
>>> the plugin, is it possible to add it to the Adium repository?
>>
>> Actually, you're required under the GPL to open source the plugin.  
>> It's a derivative work.
>>
>> Do you mean—keep the source in the SVN repository, or to include it  
>> by default with Adium?
>>
>> Zac
>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Michele Balistreri
>>> briksoftware programmer.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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