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authorWilmer van der Gaast <wilmer@gaast.net>2010-10-02 19:45:26 -0700
committerWilmer van der Gaast <wilmer@gaast.net>2010-10-02 19:45:26 -0700
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Merging mainline, which includes a huge msnp13 merge.
Not 100% sure about the OpenSSL merge, should double check that but I'm currently offline.
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@@ -61,16 +61,11 @@ A: BitlBee 0.7 was, sort-of. It contained a lot of code from Gaim 0.58
These days, we replaced the Yahoo! code with libyahoo2 (which is a
separate Yahoo! module. It's derived from Gaim, but separately
- maintained) and wrote our own MSN module. More modules are probably going
- to be changed, so in the near future, the API might be the only thing
- left from Gaim.
-
-Q: What's that Gaim doing in BitlBee error messages and my Jabber resource?
-A: Ah, well, as you probably know we use some of Gaim's IM-modules, and we
- don't think it's worth our time to do a search-and-replace over the whole
- source to get rid of every reference to Gaim. In fact, we don't want to,
- since we don't want to pretend we wrote all that code.
+ maintained) and wrote our own MSN, Jabber and Twitter modules from
+ scratch. Most of the API has also been changed, so by now the only traces
+ of Gaim left are in the "nogaim" filename.
- About Jabber: If you want a different resource string, you can set it
- when logging in by appending it to your Jabber ID, like:
- lintux@jabber.com/BitlBee
+ There is good news for Gaim (or now Pidgin, of course) fans though:
+ BitlBee can now be compiled to use libpurple for all IM interactions.
+ This makes BitlBee a bit more resource-hungry, but adds support for many
+ IM protocols/networks that couldn't be used from BitlBee so far.