[Adium-devl] About msn-pecan

[Felipe Contreras]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Peter Hosey <boredzo at adiumx.com> wrote:
> On Mar 02, 2008, at 13:51:07, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>  > msn-pecan is an alternative MSN protocol plug-in for libpurple. The
>  > goal is to provide much faster development than in the official
>  > libpurple plug-in.
>
>  Which version of the MSN protocol are you using?
>
>  I see you support (or will support) personal messages, which suggests
>  that it's newer than P9.

It's MSNP12, the latest one without SOAP stuff.

>  > Unfortunately the implementation probably isn't Adium-friendly
>  > right now, and I would like to change that, but since I don't have
>  > any way to test that I need someone that can compile and test some
>  > changes.
>
>  Not like this helps with that problem, but I suggest you look at the
>  IRC Libpurple Plugin in our trunk source code. This plug-in
>  demonstrates wrapping a libpurple prpl in an Adium plug-in bundle,
>  which is necessary for Adium to recognize it.

I see, but the main issue is that I'm using GIOChannel, which uses
GLib's mainloop, so I'll need to change the code.

>  > Pidgin devs and I disagree on a lot of core issues but mainly the
>  > issue is that I don't have commit access, so I'm doing the
>  > development as a fork.
>
>  But Pidgin uses a DVCS now. You don't need commit access anyway; you
>  can commit everything in your own Pidgin repository, then ask Pidgin
>  developers to pull your changes and review them and, if they approve,
>  merge them into Pidgin's master source.
>
>  Then again, they use Monotone, so maybe I'd rather fork, too… ;)

Exactly, I'm a fan of git, I've tried their monotone stuff and I find
the performance way behind git.

Anyway, I might make a monotone repo of msn-pecan if it's not too
difficult, but I don't expect them to pull from it.

Best regards.

-- 
Felipe Contreras