msn-pecan 0.1 good enough?

[Felipe Contreras]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Zachary West <zacw at adium.im> wrote:
> Agreed, I'm strongly in favor of using msn-pecan in a future release, but
> 1.4 needs to get out the door without any extra effort. Largely Twitter is
> blocking it right now, but I have a free weekend next week (I think; this
> semester ends the first week of May, so I will gain a significant (15+
> hours/week!) increase in free time) where I can sit down, apply the User
> List patch, fix the timeline, and hopefully throw out rc1; localizations are
> in, the message styles appear almost done, and I don't care about the
> contact-list drag/drop meta contact issues enough to block 1.4 on it.
> In the mean time, Felipe, you can issue an Adium plugin by loosely
> subclassing the ESMSNAccount and implementing an prpl-msn-pecan MSN service;
> it shouldn't be that hard to release it as a standard plugin (almost exactly
> the same as a Libpurple plugin) and present the advantages to the users for
> 1.3 and 1.4 betas without any effort on our part.
> We used msn-pecan in the past, and largely switched away for libpurple's MSN
> being brought up to par. It's still about the same as it was then, but has
> had a host of security exploits as of late, and msn-pecan appears to be at a
> higher level of maintenance.

The problem is that msn-pecan uses GLib's mainloop, so it's not so
straightforward to provide a plugin like the Skype one. However, this
is aimed for 0.2.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras