Which language is to be used to design a plugin for pidgin

[Ibrahim Awwal]

mahendra panpalia wrote:
> Adding to discussion.
>
> Who will provide us Libpurple (pidgin) library, is this open 
> source?....where can we find it's code?
>
> for making a pidgin plug-in for application, by whom do we need to 
> take a permission?
>
> On website there is no contact details etc?
> http://www.pidgin.com/
>
> Any one please let me know
> .
> Cheers!!
> Mahendra
>
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Ajay Ahuja <7aces.aaaaaaa at gmail.com 
> <mailto:7aces.aaaaaaa at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Ethan Blanton <elb at pidgin.im
>     <mailto:elb at pidgin.im>> wrote:
>
>         Ajay Ahuja spake unto us the following wisdom:
>         >   pidgin code is written usin c,c#,perl,python,tcl...
>         >   i wanna know which language is prefered to design a plugin
>         for pidgin
>
>         You may write a plugin in any supported language.  Some
>         languages have
>         better support than others, of course, which I suspect is the
>         thrust
>         of your question.
>
>         C is by far the best supported plugin language, followed by
>         perl and
>         Tcl, with C# trailing behind due to lack of maintainer.
>          Python cannot
>         be directly used to write libpurple plugins (though there are
>         some 3rd
>         party projects which support this), but many plugins have found
>         success accessing the Purple D-Bus API via python.
>
>         Ethan
>
>
>
>
>
>     In pidgin we have an option which shows out buddy list eliminating
>     the offline ones, right? so can u xplain me how is it implemented?
>     I mean the backend and the frontend of it.
>
>
>
>
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The website is http://pidgin.im , and yes, it is open source. The 
correct website will of course have more information for you.
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