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

[Alan Humpherys]

This brings to mind the struggles we had in "Fire" getting the pidgin  
community to accept the improvements we made to the AIM-Oscar  
protocol.  The difficulty was so large that we ended up doing our own  
protocol work (which is much funner than UI stuff any day...)

For my 2 cents, I think we should support Felipe in his efforts and  
reward his enthusiasm and hard work, rather than assuming that  
libPurple will always be the best implementation.  Certainly the proof  
is in the final product (features, reliability, & maintainability) but  
I would not want to discourage his efforts which are starting to show  
results.

I haven't done enough testing with MSNP15 to know if it is truly more  
reliable, so I don't have an informed decision on which library is the  
better one currently. (I just know that  MSN on the latest version of  
Pidgin is "iffy" on contact list display as well as messages with  
invisible users.)

I guess what I am trying to say to Felipe is "Good work - don't give  
up! Thanks for all you are doing"

- Alan

>> 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.
>
> I think it should be.  We're all in agreement that we need to do what
> works best, both for ourselves and for our users.  At this point in
> time it sounds like MSNP15 will best suit those needs.  Felipe, let me
> be the first to say that I sincerely hope that you are able to make
> pecan a vastly superior library.  We know you aren't going to stop
> working on it just because we aren't using it right now, so it's even
> better.
>
> -Eric
>
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