Pidgin on a palm?

Luke Schierer lschiere at pidgin.im
Sun Jul 6 16:40:22 EDT 2008


On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 09:12:48AM -0400, Ethan Blanton wrote:
> dennisthetiger at chez-vrolet.net spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > I have it on good authority that Pidgin can be installed on a Palm
> > device.  Does anyone have any information on how to do this?  I don't
> > see anything conclusive on the website or in a google search.
> 
> It sounds like said authority is considerably poorer than you
> previously thought.  PalmOS is a pretty non-typical operating system,
> and Pidgin does *not* work on it.  For starters, the critical
> dependencies of Pidgin (Glib, Gtk+) have not even been ported to
> PalmOS, much less Pidgin itself.
> 
> Ethan

he may have been thinking about Chip's long abandoned qpe-gaim.

luke




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