Crash in adium

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

On Apr 17, 2010, at 2:09 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:

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> What I'm proposing is that we continue storing the user's settings for their Facebook account(s) the same way we have been doing, rather than storing them as an XMPP account would. Basically, store the user's settings according to the service the account uses, rather than according to the protocol the service uses. This removes the need to “migrate” the user's data from one settings format to another.


	Doesn't that risk creating confusion for users helping out with troubleshooting and/or new developers somewhere down the line...?

new developer: can you please tell me how the contact looks like in your blist.xml file?
user: hhhmmm, this is strange, facebook is supposed to be an xmpp-type account, but the contact entry doesn't look like such in my blist.xml file, it's something entirely different...
new developer: that is certainly *is* strange, I don't have any idea why your facebook contacts wouldn't look like regular xmpp ones...

(some wasted brain cycles later)

vintage developers: you remember eons ago when facebook chat wasn't xmpp based...? well, that's what's going on here, that's why your contacts look differently in your blis.xml file.
new developer & user: ooohhhh, right, figures! Now, if you guys had only migrated *properly* upon the switch....


	If my script writing abilities seem to stray ridiculously far from what the reality could be sometime in the future, then it's because my knowledge of the Adium/libpurple innards is obviously very small. But I'm just wondering if something similar could indeed take place... I tend to give an admittedly somewhat obsessive preponderance to consistency when I (re)organize stuff, whatever, to precisely avoid problems of this sort down the line when decision-making-memory starts to fade.

	My two cents,...


- jmpp