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

[John Bailey]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 06:29:51PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> It's not the code that is difficult, the patch would probably be very
> simple. The problem is that it requires some time to learn how
> libraries actually work.
> 
> This for most people is not fun, and I suspect Adium developers do not
> care about anything else but the UI, which should actually be ok.
> Somebody else should take the time to make a proper libpurple library
> on OS X so Adium guys don't need to bother compiling and hacking it,
> just link to it.

Libpurple can be installed as a proper library on OS X as it is.  I
believe the limitation here is that to install a proper system library
requires administrative access, and Adium aims to remain as a
self-contained .app bundle instead of needing to install some components
system-wide.  While a great goal, it does present some challenges, as
Evan has pointed out elsewhere.

> Regarding libpurple there are quite many *should be*s.

While you have a point, in this case it is a limitation of the needs of
the target audience.  If Adium installed in a manner more in line with
how, say, Photoshop installs, then libpurple, glib, and friends could
all be installed in a very similar manner to how we do this on other
UNIX-like systems.  It's all a matter of the target audience and making
things easy for them (and there's nothing inherently wrong in this
approach!).

John
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