MSNp14 status?

[Felipe Contreras]

On Jan 31, 2008 7:52 PM, Luke Schierer <lschiere at pidgin.im> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 06:38:14PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > On Jan 31, 2008 6:14 PM, Daniel Atallah <daniel.atallah at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Jan 31, 2008 4:21 AM, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > 2008/1/31 John Bailey <rekkanoryo at rekkanoryo.org>:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > > > > >> Another problem that people seem to encounter is ADL failures. I
> > > suspect
> > > > > >> this may be because of some buddy list out of sync issues, but I have
> > > no
> > > > > >> idea at this point. Do people still get 1000 dialog prompting for
> > > sync
> > > > > >> buddy list these days?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'd drop support for the local list, but hey, that's just me :P
> > > > >
> > > > > I, too, would drop the synchronization stuff, but apparently there are
> > > reasons
> > > > > the MSN plugin goes against the trend set by the majority of other
> > > prpls.
> > > >
> > > > Not synchronization, local buddy list.
> > > >
> > > > Whatever it is in ~/.purple/blist.xml, drop it for MSN. That solves
> > > > the synchronization issue :)
> > >
> > > This isn't a good option; we need to be able to support contactization,
> > > local aliases, buddy notes and stuff for MSN buddies.
> >
> > All that stuff can be stored on the sever.
>
> How can we store, on the server, what contact a given buddy is in?

I think I didn't explain correctly my suggestion:
Whatever the MSN prpl receives from the blist.xml, just drop it.

That being said, now you can store any kind of information on the server. AFAIK.

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Felipe Contreras