[opensuse-gnome] pidgin-facebookchat
Dear All, I just saw that there was a new release of pidgin-facebookchat, a plugin for purple based IMs. The question remains though if we believe it's useful to continue providing this plugin, as facebook changed their rules and is now reachable using regular XMPP [0]. Explanation on how to configure various IMs is available as well [1] Comments are highly welcome... Dominique [0] http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=297991732130 [1] http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
Le lundi 01 mars 2010, à 14:51 +0100, Dominique Leuenberger a écrit :
Dear All,
I just saw that there was a new release of pidgin-facebookchat, a plugin for purple based IMs. The question remains though if we believe it's useful to continue providing this plugin, as facebook changed their rules and is now reachable using regular XMPP [0]. Explanation on how to configure various IMs is available as well [1]
Empathy now uses the XMPP way to let people connect to facebook. But I guess that as long as pidgin doesn't make it easy to configure a facebook account via XMPP, the plugin might still be useful. (I don't use facebook, so can't really know, to be honest ;-)) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
On 03/01/2010 at 3:00 PM, Vincent Untz <vuntz@opensuse.org> wrote: Le lundi 01 mars 2010, à 14:51 +0100, Dominique Leuenberger a écrit : Dear All,
I just saw that there was a new release of pidgin-facebookchat, a plugin for purple based IMs. The question remains though if we believe it's useful to continue providing this plugin, as facebook changed their rules and is now reachable using regular XMPP [0]. Explanation on how to configure various IMs is available as well [1]
Empathy now uses the XMPP way to let people connect to facebook. But I guess that as long as pidgin doesn't make it easy to configure a facebook account via XMPP, the plugin might still be useful.
Just had a look at this plugin, and considering that I can't find a bug report that it's not working I think nobody uses it :) it actually fails to load due to -Wl,-as-needed, which of course does not fail on a library, as it could well be that the main app does link the dependency. Nevertheless, nobody in the chain seems to link in json-glib and as such the module fails to load (at least on my machine). So actually: does ANYBODY use this plugin? Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 15:17 +0100, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
On 03/01/2010 at 3:00 PM, Vincent Untz <vuntz@opensuse.org> wrote: Le lundi 01 mars 2010, à 14:51 +0100, Dominique Leuenberger a écrit : Dear All,
I just saw that there was a new release of pidgin-facebookchat, a plugin for purple based IMs. The question remains though if we believe it's useful to continue providing this plugin, as facebook changed their rules and is now reachable using regular XMPP [0]. Explanation on how to configure various IMs is available as well [1]
Empathy now uses the XMPP way to let people connect to facebook. But I guess that as long as pidgin doesn't make it easy to configure a facebook account via XMPP, the plugin might still be useful.
Just had a look at this plugin, and considering that I can't find a bug report that it's not working I think nobody uses it :) it actually fails to load due to -Wl,-as-needed, which of course does not fail on a library, as it could well be that the main app does link the dependency. Nevertheless, nobody in the chain seems to link in json-glib and as such the module fails to load (at least on my machine).
So actually: does ANYBODY use this plugin?
Dominique
I tried to get it to work a few weeks ago and couldn't make a go of it. I planned to re-look at it again in the near future but got distracted. I don't think the plugin actually works though. Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
On 03/01/2010 at 3:26 PM, "Bryen M. Yunashko" <suserocks@bryen.com> wrote: I tried to get it to work a few weeks ago and couldn't make a go of it. I planned to re-look at it again in the near future but got distracted. I don't think the plugin actually works though.
found a bug report in bnc about this... (well, at least somebody noticed it does not work). http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567687 The problem is as simple as the solution: due to linking with -Wl,-as-needed, the linking of json-glib-1.0 is dropped. The missing symbols are not a problem for the library, as it can expect that the main application linking the lib in is taking care of it and then everything would be fine. Just that pidgin also does not link json-glib-1.0... well, some rewrite of the makefile (which for some obscure reason our package provides an own one, instead of using the originally shipped one?) with this patch and the resulting library has json-glib linked... now up to testing if this also work s:) Dominique The patch for reference: Index: pidgin-facebookchat-makefile =================================================================== --- pidgin-facebookchat-makefile (revision 51f2fce3c618f9042b8a1026c00dfb75) +++ pidgin-facebookchat-makefile (working copy) @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ rm -f *.so *~ libfacebook.so: ${SOURCES} - ${CC} ${PURPLE_CFLAGS} -I. -I/usr/include/json-glib-1.0 -ljson-glib-1.0 -pipe ${SOURCES} -o libfacebook.so + ${CC} ${PURPLE_CFLAGS} -I. -I/usr/include/json-glib-1.0 -pipe ${SOURCES} -ljson-glib-1.0 -o libfacebook.so sourcepackage: *.c *.h Makefile facebook16.png facebook22.png facebook48.png COPYING facebook.nsi tar --bzip2 -cf pidgin-facebookchat-source.tar.bz2 $^ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
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