Updated list of items blocking Pidgin 2.6.0 release

[Marcus Lundblad]

fre 2009-06-05 klockan 23:52 -0700 skrev Paul Aurich:
> On Jun 5, 2009, at 21:16, John Bailey wrote:
> > John Bailey wrote:
> >> Branches to merge to im.pidgin.pidgin:  
> >> im.pidgin.cpw.rekkanoryo.icqxstatus and
> >> im.pidgin.cpw.malu.client_type
> >
> > Paul or Etan need to sign off on the client_type branch.  This has  
> > been the only
> > thing blocking merge since my last e-mails.
> 
> It looks fine to me (with my extremely minor changes I just pushed).
> 
> Marcus, were you waiting for some artwork from hbons?

That would have been an emblem for "console" clients, but Hylke
questioned the usefulness of this, so I guess we could leave it as-is
for now (i.e. we treat "console" clients on XMPP as "pc" (a standard
client)).

//Marcus
> 
> Speaking of artwork, Mike, don't you still have some artwork to commit?
> 
> > An additional item that has cropped up that I want to consider a  
> > blocker is that
> > our friends over at Adium have discovered.  Due to their current  
> > beta series
> > shipping libpurple 2.6.0devel, we've been getting some good testing  
> > in on the
> > Yahoo 16 code.  The problem is they have users who have HTTP proxies  
> > that do not
> > proxy HTTPS connections.  This means that our current proxy code  
> > fails because
> > HTTP proxies seem also to be used for HTTPS.  As a result, a number  
> > of Adium
> > users who were able to log in with our old auth code can no longer  
> > do so.  We
> > probably need a way to explicitly indicate to the proxy code that we  
> > shouldn't
> > use an HTTP proxy for an HTTPS connection (but this needs to be a  
> > flag--some
> > proxies can and do proxy HTTPS), but I'm open to any suggestions.
> 
> How does this work for MSN? Shouldn't there be some group of users who  
> can't log in to MSN since $FIRST_VERSION_OF_ADIUM_WITH_MSNP15?
> 
> Would the flag mean that the url-fetch function would bypass the proxy  
> for those connections or?
> 
> ~Paul
> 
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