http://pidgin.im/pipermail/devel/2008-June/006029.html

I don’t know where that comment comes from. msn-pecan works fine with older glibs.

At first my objective was to merge this into mainline Pidgin, but now I’m not so sure. My work-flow with msn-pecan is exactly the way I want it.

What is wrong with having msn-pecan as a separate code-base? Distributed development has many advantages.

In the future it will be a separate library, not just for Pidgin.

An alternative choice would be merging msn-pecan. Since there have been a few disputes between other Pidgin developers and the msn-pecan developer, resulting in the msn-pecan in the first place, it’s not clear that the merge would happen without someone’s “social engineering” in-between.

but according to the log:

Author: rekkanoryo (IP: 71.60.9.133)
Timestamp: 05/14/2008 11:30:02 AM (2 weeks ago)
Comment: Merging msn-pecan is not an option with its affinity for ignoring compatibility with older glib.

it was removed.

What do you think about it?
It’s really sad, what’s happening with Pidgin’s MSN support and your work seems to be the light at the end of the tunnel.
What’s your opinion of the hypothetical merge or the possibility of you contributing directly on the project?

You need libpurple-devel as well as glib2-devel packages.

Any idea what I’m doing wrong? I’m running Hardy btw

owen@ubuntu-desktop:/tmp/msn-pecan-0.0.12$ sudo make install
gcc -fPIC -Wall -ggdb -I. -DHAVE_LIBPURPLE -Wall -W -Wformat-nonliteral -Wcast-align -Wpointer-arith -Wbad-function-cast -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Winline -Wundef -Wnested-externs -Wcast-qual -Wshadow -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -Wfloat-equal -pedantic -ansi -std=c99 `pkg-config –cflags purple` `pkg-config –cflags gobject-2.0` directconn.c -c -o directconn.o
Package purple was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `purple.pc’
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package ‘purple’ found
Package gobject-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gobject-2.0.pc’
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package ‘gobject-2.0′ found

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Sorry

in the windows version. you can add a cell phone number for a contact to be able to contact them even without them setting it up. Is it possible to add this to msn pecan so you can specify the cell number for a contact?

peace