[Adium-devl] MSNP15 in Libpurple

[John Bailey]

Hi, everyone.

I figured it might be good for us on the Pidgin team to give you guys a heads-up
on the MSNP15-related events from last night and this morning.

As many of you know, currently libpurple uses MSNP9 by default.  Feature-wise,
this protocol is somewhat lacking.  Most users would call it severely lacking
when comparing to what current official clients use.  You also likely know that
we had two Google Summer of Code projects aimed at updating our MSN protocol
support to a more modern protocol version, and at the end of both projects we
didn't merge the code to our main development branch.  This was, of course,
because we felt the code wasn't yet release-ready.  Ka-Hing Cheung, one of our
developers, spent quite a bit of time working on the MSNP14 support and merged
it to our main development branch.  However, this merge came too soon, so we
disabled the MSNP14 plugin by default and included MSNP9 by default instead.

Well, recently some things have changed in regards to MSN protocol development.
 We've had a new contributor step forward and put forth a ton of work toward
MSNP15 support.  All the most serious bugs he could find have been eliminated,
and a substantial number of smaller bugs have been identified and fixed thanks
to the testing builds #pidgin, #adium, and #adium-devl regular Dimmux made and
provided.  There are of course a number of other contributors who made this
possible, and to all of them we extend a well-earned and deserved "Thank you."

Because of all the testing recently, the MSNP15 code has finally reached a point
where we believed it ready for merging to our im.pidgin.pidgin branch (our main
development branch) in monotone.  Elliot, the contributor I mentioned, merged
his MSNP15 branch back to im.pidgin.pidgin this morning.  Currently his MSNP15
support is the plugin that's built by default; I for one hope this remains at
the release of Pidgin and libpurple 2.5.0.

I don't know for sure what you guys had planned to do when we declared our
MSNP15 support ready, but I believe that decision is now upon you.  Enjoy!

John

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