[Adium-devl] [ANN] msn-pecan 0.0.17 released

[Robert Vehse]

Hey Felipe,

great to see you are still working on Pecan.

Regards, Robby

Am 30.11.2008 um 00:13 schrieb Felipe Contreras:

> Hello,
>
> Just a quick note announcing the new msn-pecan release, which features
> custom emoticon sending support, thanks to Devid Antonio Filoni.
>
> But want to take this chance to announce other 3 projects:
> https://github.com/felipec/libmsn-pecan
> https://github.com/felipec/purple-msn-pecan
> https://github.com/felipec/telepathy-msn-pecan
>
> This is important because Empathy has officially become part of GNOME.
> Hopefully msn-pecan will soon provide decent support for msn there,
> which means more users, which means more bug reports, which means less
> bugs :)
>
> Also, there's a branch in libmsn-pecan that allows wrapping libmsn-2
> into msn-pecan's API, so it can be used by the telepathy and libpurple
> plug-ins. libmsn-2 is the new library used by Kopete, it's written in
> C++, libmsn-pecan will try to wrap it (optionally).
>
> There's code that runs for all of this, but it's still not functional.
>
> I suspect the crashes related to buddy icons are still there, but
> there's an option to turn it off, so the users can choose stability
> over functionality if they wish.
>
> Now, I'm interested in how well the official libpurple msn plug-in  
> is doing.
>
> From:
> http://developer.pidgin.im/query? 
> status=invalid&status=new&status=pending&group=component&component=MSN 
> &order=priority
> and
> http://trac.adiumx.com/query? 
> status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&component=MSN&order=priorit 
> y
>
> I can see a lot of crashes, but more importantly, people not being
> able to connect at all. That was exactly my prediction.
>
> Anyway, I'm not suggesting to move back to msn-pecan, at least until
> 0.1.0, but I'm interested in your opinion.
>
> Cheers.
>
> -- 
> Felipe Contreras