Proposed changes for Pidgin 2.7.0

Casey Ho pidgin at caseyho.com
Mon Jul 13 14:15:55 EDT 2009


With respect to plugins, most would benefit from this change.  The Facebook
prpl is full of glib version checks.
I vote yes.

I would actually like to see glib 2.14 (for regexes).

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:12 AM, Felipe Contreras <
felipe.contreras at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Ethan Blanton<elb at pidgin.im> wrote:
> > John Bailey spake unto us the following wisdom:
> >> Now, I ask for a vote from our current developers and Crazy Patch
> >> Writers.  I think holding this vote open until we release Pidgin 2.6.0
> >> is a reasonable timeframe within which to cast votes.  To start the
> >> voting off, I cast a vote of yes.
> >
> > I am ambivalent to this proposal.  Moving forward is good, but I have
> > no feeling as to what version of glib we should move to, or whether it
> > needs to be changed for 2.7.0.
> >
> > I suggest that you also request at least advisory input from packagers at .
>
> I agree, and I think it's also pertinent to consider the feedback from
> third party plugins:
> http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ThirdPartyPlugins
>
> We are also affected.
>
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> Felipe Contreras
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