[Adium-devl] [ANN] msn-pecan 0.0.12 released

[Felipe Contreras]

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Augie Fackler <lists at durin42.com> wrote:
>
>  On May 2, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
>
>  > The basic problem with MSN-pecan is that it does not use libpurple's
>  > eventloop functions explicitly. It depends on the glib run loop (via
>  > the IO functions) which is present in Pidgin but absent in Adium. The
>  > best route to fix this would be to just use sources... Another choice
>  > might be to run the glib run loop within Adium.
>
>  Is there any technical *reason* it doesn't run inside libpurple's
>  event loop? I'd just as soon not run another runloop system inside
>  Adium (remember the mess that joscar threads turned into)

The reason is that it's using GIOChannel. It makes things much easier
to report proper networking errors.

I tried to encapsulate all the GIOChannel usage so it wouldn't be
difficult to change, but would prefer not do so.

Actually I would like to move on and use gio.

Best regards.

-- 
Felipe Contreras