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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. |