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The current development of the MSN protocol plug-in seems to be lagging because of bad development decisions.
This is a fork of that code with a much faster development process.
Features include:
* Support for personal messages (readonly)
* Server-side storage for display names
* Partial direct connection support
* Improved network IO
* Improved error handling
* Network issues tested with netem
* GObject usage
http://code.google.com/p/msn-pecan/
Just install, then choose protocol WLM in accounts in pidgin instead of MSN.
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I'm going to try this, btw here is the pkgbuild I made:
pkgname=msn-pecan
pkgver=0.0.8
pkgrel=1
license=('GPL')
pkgdesc="Alternative MSN protocol plug-in por libpurple."
arch=(i686 x86_64)
url="http://code.google.com/p/msn-pecan"
depends=('pidgin')
source=(http://msn-pecan.googlecode.com/files/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2)
md5sums=('7a9f93d30d5cb91a01afc4790e21e4e0')
build() {
cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
./configure --prefix=/usr
make || return 1
make PREFIX=$startdir/pkg/usr DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
}
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meanwhile, emesene has already full support for personal messages, offline messaging etc.
I guess pidgin's unfriendly MSN support has sparked some good results after all
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This is a step in the right direction. Now if only pidgin had voice chat or camera support, we would be in business.
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Does emesene have file transfer in this version?
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Does emesene have file transfer in this version?
it does! at least in svn
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Amazing, thank you!
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I'm using the MSNP14 patch with Pidgin, works great! You can read/write personal messages/song reporting (integrates nicely with musictracker) and even offline messaging works.
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I just use emesene, it's simpler and lighter
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I'm using the MSNP14 patch with Pidgin, works great! You can read/write personal messages/song reporting (integrates nicely with musictracker) and even offline messaging works.
Hey, mate where is that patch? and ... how do you install that kinda Pidgin? I feel really awful that Pidgin cannot get offline msg ...:/
Oh my mistake... this protocol doesnt support offline msg ->" BTW does this protocol support offline msg?"
Last edited by andywxy (2008-02-23 13:34:41)
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Hey, mate where is that patch? and ... how do you install that kinda Pidgin? I feel really awful that Pidgin cannot get offline msg ...:/
BTW does this protocol support offline msg?
yaourt -S pidgin-msnp14
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Thanks uastasi!
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the msn-pecan :
Offline messages has been added to the todo list.
Direct file transfer is supposed to be fully working now if you use the svn code. (I havent tried yet)
For just one developer, I see the development of this msn protocol really fast.. I hope it will have all nice functionality within 1-2 months. I like pidgin so I would rather not change to emesene. One reason is that i still would need pidgin for ICQ or yahoo account.
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Cool! It was time to improve the MSN protocol
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There's Mercury Messenger which is dedicated to MSN.
community/mercury
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why is mercury better than emesene?
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I hate having more than one messaging application open at the same time, and I need both MSN and Google Talk, so I prefer to use Pidgin.
Other than that Mercury is written in Java but I have to admit it's the best MSN clone out there, in my opinion. I prefer lightness and essential features, though (audio/video could come handy sometimes anyway...).
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i use emesene because I don't care about video/audio. but if I ever need that, mercury is just a pacman -S away haha
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i just started using pidgin-msnp14 instead of the official build..
although i had to delete my .purple folder, i didnt experience any problems
edit: alright, it crashed just a sec ago
Last edited by xdeusx (2008-02-23 21:12:37)
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enough of msn already. tell all your friends to jump to jabber/google talk. i'm doing it everyday and failing colourfully.
I need real, proper pen and paper for this.
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i wish... but msn is way too used now and "normal" people won't care about open source and stuff.. they just want to talk to their friends and if 99.9% of them use msn, they will use msn too
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Does mercury support audio also? that would be sweet to be able to use audio and video.. I will have to use mercury then for times when i use audio/video until it comes to pidgin..
Is there any pkgbuilds for the mercury 2.0alpha release?
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no.. the only one available is for v. 1.9-2
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