[Adium-devl] Adium iPhone

[David Smith]

On Jan 22, 2009, at 11:38 AM, Andreas Monitzer wrote:

> On Jan 22, 2009, at 20:33, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
>
>> In any case, I don't think that the two fairly reasonable proposals  
>> thus far are necessarily exclusive.  Given an awesome Adium for  
>> iPhone application's UI and properly developed backend, an account  
>> type of "Adium On My Desktop" could be created, paired as Andy  
>> suggests or through some other mechanism and used by more advanced  
>> users who are capable of setting up their router, dynamic DNS, and  
>> so forth to provide a connection to a home machine.  I think that  
>> most of Adium for iPhone's users given both options, though, would  
>> want to be able to connect regardless of whether or not they have  
>> an appropriate setup at home running, connected, and reachable.
>
> I basically agree, the problem is just that getting libpurple,  
> including its dependencies, to run on the iPhone is non-trivial.

Memory footprint is also an issue. Connecting the first libpurple  
based account on my Adium increases footprint by ~10MB.