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

[Zachary West]

On Jul 12, 2008, at 14:12 , Michele Balistreri wrote:

> Indeed our initial plan was to submit it to the Xtras site. The plan  
> faded when we saw the warnings from Adium (initially, I thought it  
> was a bug in the plugin and that it indeed broke something) which  
> would have scared the users.

The warning only occurs when the version number increases. However,  
yeah, it does display enough to be annoying.

>
> Yes it connects to our server with a simple HTTP connection. If it  
> doesn't manage to download a screenshot it just passes the messages  
> through unmodified. It also only process URLs if they are the only  
> thing in the message (at least in the current version of the  
> plugin). I'm using it since some months and it survived many updates  
> as the code is very small. It never caused any harm here, but it has  
> only been tested by 3 other person (although quite intensely).

Indeed, which is something we wouldn't ever want to do by default.

Zac

>
> I will watch the mailing list as well to see how it turns out.  
> Thanks again!
>
> Regards,
> Michele Balistreri
> briksoftware programmer.
>
>
>
> Il giorno 12/07/2008, alle ore 19:59, Zachary West ha scritto:
>
>> 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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