Downgrading Pidgin

[Ethan Blanton]

Sascha Vogt spake unto us the following wisdom:
> Ethan Blanton schrieb:
> > Sameer Bhiwani spake unto us the following wisdom:
> >> I currently have Pidgin 2.5.1 and want to install 2.3.1 as it supports
> >> connecting to multiple XMPP servers with the same login/password. Not sure
> >> why this functionality was dropped int he newer releases.
> > 
> > What do you mean, here?  Pidgin has never supported using the same
> > user at host pair on more than one XMPP server, and all versions of
> > pidgin support using differing user at host pairs on different XMPP
> > servers.
>
> I think there was a bug which allowed duplicate XMPP accounts with
> different connect servers. This ticket (though not sure, if this is what
> I remember being discussed on this list)
> http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/5086 seems to be related...
> 
> To the OP: This never was a "functionality" but a bug, which has been fixed.

Interesting.  If it ever worked, it was *certainly* a bug, and I would
be shocked to find out it was at all reliable.  Many things in Pidgin
look up information by the account name, which, for XMPP, is user at host.

Ethan

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