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Originally posted by CookieRevised
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Originally posted by bugmenot
It would be nice if msg plus! Live included MessPatch. All it would need to do is install the exe someplace, and add a button labeled something like "more customisations" to the settings window. Mess patch takes care of exiting Messenger and restaring it when finished, so that is not a problem.
The fact that MessPatch includes a "patchou" profile implies that patchou does indeed support and even use that patcher.
So this is not as unlikly as it might seem.
Plus! will never include exe's like that (appart from the optional sponsor). Also what messpatch does is something totally different than what Plus! does and how it does it.
Also, Plus! would become very bloated if it was included. Not to mention that some patches can cause many troubles (for Plus! and other addons).
And not everybody uses those patches anyways.
And why wouldn't A-Patch be included then, or patch x, or patch y, etc... etc...
It is very doubtfull that this well ever be done.
Well, it would be usefull. Yes I realize that thy do not work in the same way. That is part of the reason why The patch programs can do things that Msg Plus does not offer. Plus! live contains 3 exe's written by Patchou.
Boated? Plus! live is over 6MB. MessPatch is 300KB.
The difference would hardly be noticable.
It woud make sense to only include one patching utility.
I chose MessPatch as it is the one I am familar with, and is generally around as complete as A-Patch.
Also, while you are right that not everybody uses he paches, there are ome tha are very nice. For example removing the "billing information" menu item, that has nothing to do with billing, but is instead contains links to worthless premium services.
Other nice features are the removal of the ads, the increase in the maximum size of personal messages, and a few other features that have general interest.
Currently A-patch appears to have very few feaures not found in mess patch.
Indeed there was not a single feaure in A-patch that I wanted that was not in Messpatch, but the reverse is not true.
