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Pidgin 3.0.0 Experimental 1 Announcement

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89 points rw_grim | 2 comments | 22 Nov 24 04:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.407s | source
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relyks ◴[22 Nov 24 06:28 UTC] No.42211603[source]▶
Am I reading this right? Is the only protocol being supported now the most recent version of IRC? Are there plans for others? Part of Pidgin's "calling card" has been its ability to support many different chat protocols. However, that's become difficult since most protocols have become walled gardens and harder to reverse engineer. I'd imagine supporting Matrix, XMPP, Signal, other protocols with open specifications, etc. would be a good idea
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rw_grim ◴[22 Nov 24 06:32 UTC] No.42211624[source]▶
yes all the other protocols will eventually be supported. we're a small team of open source developers and these things take time..
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johnisgood ◴[22 Nov 24 08:11 UTC] No.42212017[source]▶
Not sure if my memory deceives me, but did not Pidgin support XMPP?

I suppose for now I may stick to Gajim (and Conversations on Android).

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1. jpk ◴[22 Nov 24 08:33 UTC] No.42212124[source]▶
Pidgin supports lots of protocols, including xmpp, via plugins. It just sounds like they choose to make breaking changes to the plugin API for v3. I'd expect popular protocols to get ported at some point before GA.
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2. rw_grim ◴[22 Nov 24 08:49 UTC] No.42212182[source]▶
Yes this 100%. As the post says, nearly all of the API in libpurple and pidgin has changed. So we have to rewrite all of the protocols yet.