new client plans and libpurple

[Conrad Poelman]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Kevin Stange <kstange at pidgin.im> wrote:

> On 03/29/2013 01:30 AM, Conrad Poelman wrote:
> > Inspired by Pidgin's own generate_gtk_zip.sh script in
> > pidgin/win32/nsis, I realized that much of the BuildingWinPidgin
> > instructions could be automated into a script using wget to download and
> > tar/unzip to extract the files automatically. It's not really done yet
> > but I'm attaching it in case anyone's interested in adding it to the
> > repository to simplify the Windows build instructions. It currently
> > fetches newer library versions (GTK+ 2.24, GLib 2.32) than is stated in
> > the instructions, since GLib 2.32 is required by gstreamer and farstream
> > and I'm trying to get video/voice working on Windows.
> >
> > It could probably be extended to handle most of Zoltán's instructions
> > too, though Visual Studio developers may not want to install MinGW just
> > to run this script.
>
> It's fallen far out of date, but I already wrote such a script:
>
> http://gaim-extprefs.sf.net/bef.shtml
>
> Perhaps some of the code might be of use to you.
>
 Wow, thanks, yours looks much more polished and sophisticated than mine.
Should this script be checked into the repository and used to shorten the
Windows MinGW build instructions at
https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/BuildingWinPidgin? The steps would become
shorter and revision controlling the script would give folks on the 2.10.7
branch a script appropriate for them, while folks on the 3.0 branch would
get a script with updated dependencies, etc.
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