[Adium-devl] MSN-pecan

[Zachary West]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Evan Schoenberg <evan.s at dreskin.net> wrote:
> With Felipe's help, MSN-pecan, an alternative MSN libpurple
> implementation forked from the msnp9  code we currently use, is now
> working in Adium. This gives us significant improvements over the
> existing code -less bugs (as you all know, MSN is bugtastic in its
> current iteration) and personal messages support, among other things -
> without embracing the new-bugs of early adoption of the msnp15 branch.
>
> I expect we'll switch back to libpurple's own implementation after
> msnp15 is merged to im.pidgin.pidgin and determined to be as stable
> and featureful or more so. In the meantime, I'd like to switch to MSN-
> pecan for adium 1.3.
>
> Thoughts?

I strongly feel we should use a better MSN implementation, but how
well-tested is msn-pecan? Is it good enough, stable enough, to be a
replacement for our currently buggy-anyway MSN? If so, I see no
downside to using it until libpurple focuses a bit more on MSN.

Zac