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

[Felipe Contreras]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:28 AM, Chris Forsythe <chris at growl.info> wrote:
>
> On Sep 10, 2008, at 12:21 PM, Robert Vehse wrote:
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>>  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.

I like this open decision better. Use whatever works best.

I'm confident that at some point it will be clear that msn-pecan is
superior, perhaps 0.1.0.

So is this the final decision? A decision would allow me to plan better.

-- 
Felipe Contreras