O.P. RE: RE: gaim integration / msg+ protocol
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Originally posted by Adeptus
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Originally posted by Verte
Gaim has a lot of nifty msg+ like features, but it's not quite the same. I'd like to have more msg+y features, but without reverse engineering or packet sniffing, neither of which I have experience with, I don't know how to go about building that integration in. Does anyone know if there's anything published concerning the format of the msg+ text formating and such?
I don't see what there is to reverse engineer or otherwise learn from Plus! for your stated purpose. There might be something to learn from how Plus! interfaces to Messenger if you were looking to create another add-on for Messenger/Windows, but to extend an open source IM client with similar features, you should just take the current Gaim source code as your starting point, familiarize yourself with it, and add the features you want.
Under GPL, you can always distribute your extended version independently (as long as you provide the source code). You can also look into offering your extensions as a source code patch (which users can apply to the current Gaim source tree before they build it), or see if the developer(s) of Gaim will simply accept your work for inclusion in the next release.
It's not how Plus! interfaces to messenger that's the thing- more how Plus! extends the messenger API. For example, what actually gets sent when trying to execute a change of font colour or /me. was put impeccably into words at DebianDay for me last Saturday, by Knut Yrvin of Trolltech - adults try something once, fail, and then are like "ffs this doesn't work". Children try, fail, and then try again, and succeed - maybe on the second, or even fifth retry. But the thing is that they keep at it and overcome the problems in the end.
-andrewdodd13 | 
