Pidgin 3 - Is there any point?

[Gary Kramlich]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 3:25 AM David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:

> I think the "all my plugins/themes/customisations don't work" part is a
> little bit of a red herring. Once 3.0 is released, those will hopefully
> catch up relatively quickly.
>

Agreed, we even have https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/twotree to make porting
easier as you can write the 3.0 api and compile against 2.0.


> I do think that moving to GTK3 is useful for maintainability in the
> long term, and also for being *perceived* as a modern, maintained
> application.
>

I concur and as I mentioned in my response to Eion, it also lets us run
without xquartz on osx.


> I think the main hurdle is getting 3.0 to the point where we can
> release it. It doesn't need to be perfect; we can always do later
> releases.
>

We can literally release alpha's whenever we finish removing webkit1gtk.
But having a final release of a library with a "stable" api is going to be
a mess.  I mean we could pull a gtk and break abi a couple times and then
just announce 4.0, but honestly I'd rather do more alphas/betas/rc's before
doing that.


> What needs to be fixed before we can do a 3.0 release? Especially, what
> features is the user going to miss? And what APIs do we *want* to
> change but haven't managed yet, which would cause another breakage for
> plugins in the future if we don't get it in before 3.0?
>

What is an acceptable way for people to receive this data.  Trac has way
too much noise, there's my trello board https://trello.com/b/4ZBlhJFd/pidgin,
I stream 3 nights a week working on pidgin stuff, but everyone is still
asking this question.  So my question to you all, how do you want to
receive this data?

Thanks,

--
Gary Kramlich <grim at reaperworld.com>
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