Pidgin on Internet tablets (Was: Re: Acer to contact Pidgin)

[Richard Laager]

On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 14:21 +0300, Gabriel Schulhof wrote:
> There are other patches which are tablet-specific. I have attempted to
> reduce the impact they would have on Pidgin as a whole, were they to be
> merged upstream. I have done so using configure switches and #defines in
> the code. Nonetheless, Richard told me that they are not yet to be
> merged upstream.

My thought was that we don't want to merge in tablet support when none
of us have tablets. From what I can see, Gabriel is doing an excellent
job maintaining this as a separate project. Our use of a DVCS makes it
fairly easy to merge changes between upstream Pidgin and the tablet port
of Pidgin, so I don't see huge advantages to merging. And given that
significant changes have been made for the tablet (like all the request
UI hinting, for example), I think it's useful that Gabriel can bend the
compatibility and versioning rules right now.

Richard
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