Proposal for an extended callbacks field

[Sean Egan]

On 7/26/07, Ethan Blanton <elb at pidgin.im> wrote:
> I would love to know what you were actually told, because I find this
> highly unlikely.  I suspect you were told that a *particular
> implementation* was not good, not that the feature would never be
> accepted.  This sort of statement *cannot* be generalized the way you
> persist in generalizing it.

This may be something that I said; I recall saying something along the
lines that a discovery browser is something that would probably be
very, very hard to abstract away in a generic way, and could probably
be better implemented as a series of different abstractions (e.g. MUCs
can be found using the discovery browser, but is better done with the
protocol-agnostic chat list API).

See: http://www.xmpp.org/registrar/disco-categories.html

I may have said I'd prefer such an approach over a monolithic
XMPP-specific browser, but I don't think I ever said that Pidgin will
"never" feature such a thing.

-s.