[Adium-devl] MSNp15 (libpurple im.pidgin.pidgin) in Adium 1.3.x

[Chris Forsythe]

On Sep 10, 2008, at 12:21 PM, Robert Vehse wrote:

>  I see is that we've been flooded with complaints over MSN since 1.3

You probably meant to say "from the beginning of time" right?

Seriously, I don't see people who use msn to be happy until it's  
exactly like the official windows client in features, so I don't know  
that this is a decently good argument or not.

Felipe is being pretty responsive, but I think the position that the  
Adium team is making is that they want to use whatever gives users the  
most bang for the developer buck. The position that Felipe is making  
is that he's writing a better codebase, however it's got a few  
features that are being demanded.

I think the solution here is pretty simple. Switch to msnp15, and then  
if/when msn-pecan improves beyond p15 in the features department,  
switch back to it. That of course leaves the question of reverting  
1.3.future-release back to pecan. This sort of thing move would remove  
the whole emotional attachment that anyone has, and would leave the  
Adium devs and Felipe with motivation to continue to work on pecan, to  
make patches for both libraries if/when possible, and to strip away  
anything except for logic from this sort of decision. This isn't as  
clear as the joscar switch, but I think that it's pretty clear as to  
what the best judgement call is.

Anyhow, my 2 cents and all of that (obviously)

Chris