msn-pecan 0.1 good enough?

[Felipe Contreras]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Christopher Forsythe <chris at growl.info> wrote:
>> However, that's irrelevant, what matters is how it compares to
>> libpurple's stock prpl.
>
> It's not irrelevant as 0.1 is a very low number. If it were 1.0, then you've
> accomplished at least a decent amount of things you set out to accomplish,
> with a number like 0.1 it doesn't instill a lot of confidence.

It doesn't matter what things msn-pecan has been set to accomplish for
1.0, what matters is that msn-pecan 0.1 > libpurple's msn 2.6.6. IOW,
what matters is the benefit your users will see.

> Would it be better to wait until pecan can plug into libpurple? Are there
> any more features/bug fixes to the core connectivity to MSN that this
> library does not have which the msn library in libpurple has?

It's actually the other way around, msn-pecan connectivity has more
features than libpurple's. However, for that we depend on GLib's
mainloop, and some people (e.g. instantbird) don't like that. So
either a workaround needs to be provided at some level (probably not
efficient), or we need to support libpurple's primitive IO facilities
as well (the target is 0.2).

However, end users barely notice these discrepancies as msn-pecan's
Adium builds already have an active user base.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras