[Adium-devl] MSN-pecan

[Felipe Contreras]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Zachary West <zacwest at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

To be honest, even though I have tested msn-pecan as much as I
possibly can, lately I've received a lot of reports of crashes and
other critical issues. So I wouldn't dare to say it's ready for the
masses.

However, that doesn't mean the current msnp9 is any better. A quick
grep on the reported issues shows at least 15 reported crashes (not
msnp14-15 related), most of which are ignored or at least appear to be
forgotten. Also, the fact that these issues are marked as "minor" says
a lot about the current commitment.

If you find any major issues I will do my best to resolve them quickly.

Best regards.

-- 
Felipe Contreras