[OTR-dev] Pidgin plugin development and GUI look

[Ian Goldberg]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 10:08:19PM +0200, Jonathan Schleifer wrote:
> Ian Goldberg <ian at cypherpunks.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Yes, that's one of the main things we'll be changing; the way it works
> > now is completely silly (not to mention i18n-unfriendly).  I've signed
> > up someone who will be working on this API redesign.  He should be
> > contacting the various IM client implementors soon (either via this
> > list, or by direct email, not sure yet) to start gathering
> > requirements for the v4 API.
> 
> Can you give any ETA so we can plan for our next release? We try to
> release 0.12 ASAP, but it will still take a few months and I'd like to
> know if there's a possibility we can support OTR in the 0.12 release.
> It would be enough to know when the biggest part of the API change is
> done so we can base on that. Doesn't matter if libotr 4.0 gets released
> after Gajim 0.12 then, at least, we have working support in it then :).

Assuming Willy gets good feedback from the IM developers pretty quickly
about what they (you) want in the API, we hope to have the requirements
spec'd out and the API designed by August.  Depending on the scope of
the changes, the actual implementation of the new API may take longer.

   - Ian