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May 7, 2007 at 10:26 pm #26920RU Still DownMember
Pidgin (the messaging client formerly known as Gaim) released 2.0.0 binaries (source code too!) for Windows and Fedora Core on May 4th. It integrates three years of Summer of Code Gaim projects. They also got a brand spakin’ new website with a funny looking pigeon as their logo.
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Change Log: Pidgin ViewMTN: File ChangeLog in revision [8c0ef1cb..]May 7, 2007 at 10:30 pm #160892DavidParticipantAwesome! Thanks for posting this for us. 🙂
The meaning of the word Pidgin is also kind of cool:
Google-Define wrote:A pidgin is a new language which develops in situations where speakers of different languages need to communicate but don’t share a common language. The vocabulary of a pidgin comes mainly from one particular language (called the “lexifier”). An early “pre-pidgin” is quite restricted in use and variable in structure. But the later “stable pidgin” develops its own grammatical rules which are quite different from those of the lexifier. …May 11, 2007 at 10:32 pm #160891Jeff HesterKeymasterI downloaded and installed the Windows version, but it crashes every time I try to activate the Yahoo service. Has anyone had success with it? It’s working fine with MSN, AIM and ICQ.
Pidgin shows promise if the stability issues can be worked out.
May 15, 2007 at 1:07 am #160896AwesomeSauceParticipantI’m actually having issues with connecting to MSN.
I downloaded the Pidgin source code and compiled it for my machine, and things seemed like a success until I tried connecting to MSN. It says “SSL support is needed for MSN. Please install a supported SSL library.”
So I downloaded some various SSL packages that I thought should have worked, but no avail. Anyone else have this issue?
May 15, 2007 at 2:00 am #160893DavidParticipantWhat OS are you compiling for? Did you use the openSSL package?
May 15, 2007 at 2:36 am #160897AwesomeSauceParticipantI use Ubuntu 7.04. I went into Synaptic and did a search for “openssl” and several of the results are already installed, including a package that’s simply called openssl. Is there something else I have to do?
May 15, 2007 at 2:57 am #160894DavidParticipantI don’t use Ubuntu…however have you installed openssl-devel? or whatever the equivalent for a developer/source package is for ubuntu?
May 15, 2007 at 3:37 am #160898AwesomeSauceParticipantWell, I guess after making sure I had the right packages, I recompiled Pidgin and it connected just fine. Thanks for caring. 🙂
And as Jeff mentioned, this program certainly has some stability issues. Yeesh. After starting it, I can expect it to close by itself again at any given time.
May 15, 2007 at 3:41 am #160895DavidParticipantGlad you got it working! 🙂
Those instability issues will probably be cleared up in later releases. I’m sure they’re widespread enough that the developers are working on it.
May 25, 2007 at 2:59 am #160901joy_deepMemberCheck first if you have any duplicate contacts in the buddy list.
May 27, 2007 at 6:17 pm #160900RU Still DownMemberThe first bug fix release for 2.0.0 has been released. Supposedly 2.0.1 fixes “over 100 bugs reported in 2.0.0.” I’m sure some of the above problems that you’ve been experiencing have been fixed. As always you can get help at #pidgin on irc.freenode.net
May 28, 2007 at 5:50 am #160899AwesomeSauceParticipantRU Still Down?;219356 wrote:The first bug fix release for 2.0.0 has been released. Supposedly 2.0.1 fixes “over 100 bugs reported in 2.0.0.” I’m sure some of the above problems that you’ve been experiencing have been fixed. As always you can get help at #pidgin on irc.freenode.netw00t! No more crashing for me.
…although upon startup of 2.0.1, I was bombarded with roughly a hundred messages asking me if I wanted to add each individual contact to the server list. So I clicked “Yes” over and over, and then in addition to my regular contact groups I had a “Individuals” group which had clones of all my other contacts, so I just deleted that one.. and I’m still sorting things out.
*Sigh*. Things are going pretty good so far though.
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