Plans for 3.0.0

Daniel Atallah daniel.atallah at gmail.com
Tue Mar 15 19:41:37 EDT 2011


On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 19:38, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury <imadil at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  * Change PurpleBuddy to PurpleContact (existing PurpleContact has to be
>> renamed first!)
>
> I think I am opposed to this for two reasons (1) 'Buddy' means more
> sense than 'Contact' in IM context, and (2) Changing the meaning of
> PurpleContact can potentially be very confusing, especially for plugin
> authors. If Buddy absolutely has to go for some reason, I think
> 'Friend' would be better than 'Contact'.

I strongly agree with this sentiment.  I was in the middle of writing
a response to that effect when Sadrul's mail came in.

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