[Adium-devl] Facebook/Safari

[Evan Schoenberg]

Eion,

On Jan 5, 2009, at 3:25 PM, Eion Robb wrote:

> Is it worth giving the libpurple Facebook plugin a shot, even as just
> a seperate plugin -- similar to how you guys gave the msn-pecan a go?
>> From what I'm told, there are a lot of issues/feature requests on  
>> your
> bug tracker that could be closed just by switching over.
>
> I completely agree that the Adium plugin code is a lot more elegant,
> but the libpurple plugin has had a lot of TLC by Mark Doliner and
> Casey Ho and is on-par with a lot of the other protocols now (If you
> consider that a good thing ;) ).
>
> It might make more sense to consolidate our efforts instead of working
> on two seperate protocol implementations... both of our sets of users
> would probably benefit from the merge.
>
> Anyway, that's my thoughts.  I'm happy to work with you guys in making
> an AdiumLibpurplePlugin wrapper if you like?

I think we should consolidate efforts.  The only reason the Adium code  
is more elegant is because it's written in Cocoa and is benefitting  
from most of the low-level work being taken care of automatically by  
NSConnection and WebView.... which are also turning out to be a  
problem on some unclear level.

An AdiumLibpurplePlugin for it would be a solid way to go from here...  
I think that'd be great, personally.  We'd need to take a look at use  
'in the field' in a beta to make sure that we're not gaining more  
problems than we're fixing in the switch.... but my suspicion is that  
it'd be well worth it, as our #1 issue with the Adium FB plugin is  
definitely the shared cookie jar between Safari and Adium.

I've checked out the current pidgin-facebook source but have found it  
doesn't compile on OS X yet.  Making a Makefile.am for it would let  
the automake tools do their thing - probably a lot easier than  
hardcoding the settings for building a universal binary.

-Evan
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