Quick comment re: MacOS

Gary Kramlich grim at pidgin.im
Tue Feb 8 18:47:26 EST 2022


On 1/9/22 11:10, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Adium does not appear to be in active development any longer. FYI. There 
> haven't been meaningful updates to the code in a very long time, author 
> does not respond to messages.

Unfortunately, we're aware...

> I'm not sure what, if any alternatives there are.  But I wonder if 
> someone can put together a MacOS release -- sounds like that might be a 
> bit of work, with the UI/API.

There is a version of Pidgin 2 in homebrew that runs without xquartz.

That said, Pidgin 3 is targeting macOS directly, but we're still many 
months away from even an alpha, so it's going to be a bit.

> Forrest



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