Design decisions for new Protocol: Adium vs Libpurple

[David Smith]

The downside of doing it in purple is just the additional work (purple prpl + Adium wrapper plugin vs just an Adium plugin), and the upside is just the additional front ends, as far as I know.

	David

On Jun 26, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Bob Tanner wrote:

> I'm looking to read more on adding a new protocol to Adium as a plugin.
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> In particular more information regarding writing the plugin in Adium (like Services > Twitter, or Services > Bonjour) vs Libpurple.
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> The  current client is written in C and is tightly integrated to the server code base.  Initial attempts to make a client library (similar to Bonjour's libezv) have lead to the decision to write a client protocol library outside of the current server code base.
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> Should I write the plugin in Adium (Objc) or look to wrap it inside libpurple?
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> Where can I find more information regarding the trade-offs between Adium native(?) plugins vs libpurple plugin?
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> Does one API lend itself to new protocols better then the other?
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> As I understand it, libpurple plugin would give a larger selection of IM front-ends (pidgin, finch, Adium). Does it give me more?
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> Thank you for any advise.
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