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

[Felipe Contreras]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Thibault Martin-Lagardette
<thibault.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> As a daily MSN user (france is that kind of country where MSN leads), I may
> say that the overall use of MSN is better with Felipe's msn-pecan.
> It does crash adium, sometimes, and it is kinf of frustrating. BUT ! The
> overall experience is way better. Before msn-pecan, I had a lot of
> connecting and speaking issues. So many issues sending messages, people not
> receiving it, and so on.
> What I mean is, even if it crashes, it is still way better. I feel better
> with msn-pecan.
> Plus, Felipe's planning to add direct connection transfer, a feature that is
> WAY more interesting than V/V at the moment.
> I mean, when I need to webcam, sth like once a week, I ask people to get on
> AIM and I get on iChat. That's ok for a "once in week" duty. But I do send
> files many times a day, and it is very frustrating to ask people to send
> their file via mail.
> Nothing really precise, nothing really interesting, just wanted to root for
> pecan :).

Actually it's already on the 'next' branch, along with handwritten
messages (thanks to Devid's porting). So it might be possible that you
can already receive files directly. It's also possible that you won't
be able to receive files at all :P (again, it's limited)

> Chris' solution looks good. Just one thing : who will use and debug
> msn-pecan then?
> What I would love, though I know it may be hard, is to have an Adium w/
> msn-pecan bundle. I mean, the official one would be Adium w/ MSNP15 for now,
> and some people who'd prefer / like to use msn-pecan, to help felipe go on,
> would be able to dowmload the bundle somewhere on the wiki, hidden from
> daily basic people.
> But that's just a dream, I do know that =D

I would like Adium to support external libpurple plugins, but even if
that doesn't happen, there's always the possibility of packing it like
the skype plugin [1]. Anyone up to the task?

[1] http://eion.robbmob.com/

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Felipe Contreras