Adjusting the IRC CTCP version ident string "Purple IRC"

[Peter Hosey]

On Jul 17, 2011, at 12:56:23, Thijs Alkemade wrote:
> On 17 jul 2011, at 21:39, filtered wrote:
>> Is there a way to configure the reply of the CTCP VERSION IRC command or 
>> to patch the sources (if yes where)?
> 
> That is not possible without patching the libpurple source code. Namely libpurple/irc/parse.c:568.

That sounds like a good thing to expose via API. I, for one, think it'd be good if it responded with “Adium 1.5 (Purple IRC whatever.version)”. Of course, only the first part should be customizable; no need to let applications change it to just anything.