[OTR-dev] pidgin-otr rewrite

Howard Chu hyc at symas.com
Sun Dec 18 23:48:21 EST 2011


Peter Lawler wrote:
>> I've spent a couple days rewriting the pidgin-otr-3.2.0 plugin to only use
>> libpurple, so that the plugin will work with finch. I've just now gotten
>> something running, so I thought I'd post a snapshot of my changes to get some
>> early feedback. You'll also need the latest finch source with my patch here
>>
>> http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14818
> I've added some tags to that ticket and will try and catch up with the
> GNT/Finch folks over the coming week and see how they feel about it. My
> gut instinct is they'll be happy someone's supplied a patch to extend
> Finch's plugin support capabilities. Whether they'll be happy to merge
> it before 2.10.2, I can't possibly say. Will see how they feel about (as
> per your comment on the ticket) where in the source it should go.

Add bugs 14820, 14821, and 14822 to my list...

The rewrite is now code-complete and seems to be running OK. You can grab it 
from here

https://gitorious.org/purple-otr

(Still haven't tweaked the Makefile...) Feedback welcome.

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