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

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Sep 10, 2008, at 8:48 PM, Eric Richie wrote:

> 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.

Agreed.  As I said to Felipe off-list recently:

>   I think that the primary problem here is that in moving from msnp9  
> to msn-pecan we moved from bugs in sets A, B, C, D, and E to bugs in  
> sets E, F, and G, if you see what I mean.  There are new bugs, and  
> probably less total than we were dealing with previously, but the  
> difference is that these new bugs are affecting existing users, and  
> the old bugs probably long since drove away people they were  
> regularly affecting.
>
> I would definitely be interested in looking at msn-pecan again in  
> the future when we can honestly say that there is an unequivocal  
> advantage.  I imagine, given your plan to continue to develop it  
> independently, that this may come eventually.  In the meantime, I  
> think the best thing for the Adium userbase is for us to use the  
> 'devil we know'.

Let's move adium-1.3 to im.pidgin.pidgin and do a 1.3.2 beta this  
weekend.

Cheers,
Evan
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