[Erc-help] Re: erc-nicklist and erc-bbdb updates

[Michael O. <mw...@gn...>]

Edg...@in... (Edgar Gon=C3=A7alves) writes:

> I changed erc-bbdb, also. I didn't like how it was changing the name
> of the record to the (sometimes very) long MSN nick. So I created a
> new field. Also, when doing a /whois, it tries to find the record,
> but if it can't, it asks you for a name to it. If you find the
> proper record, you may use it. if it's not, it asks you for another
> one (and if there's no record under that name, it simply uses the
> name to create a new one). Yes, I left out the case I don't find any
> record and don't want to create any. simply do a \C-g , if you want
> to do a whois, you prolly want to know that person. or you may
> delete the record without saving bbdb!

To add context to this change: this makes the integration or ERC with
BitlBee (http://www.bitlbee.org/) seem more like a normal instant
messaging program.  The improved MSN protocol integration can be
obtained by applying the patches from (http://www.bitlbee.be/andy/) to
bitlbee and recompiling.  There are also some AIM patches at
(http://get.bitlbee.org/patches/hanji/) that might provide similar
functionality.

Once ERC 5.0.3 is released, I plan to hack on erc-nicklist.el and
erc-bbdb.el along with Edgar.  These are some things I would like to
see:

 * Buddy icons (probably provided in a folder, given that it might be
   hard to fetch them from other people over AIM without Yet Another
   Bitlbee patch).

 * Ability to get buddy information.  Edgar seems to have implemented
   this part already for the most part.

The question is: shall I

 1. Merge these changes into CVS HEAD once the 5.0.3 release is done.

or

 2. Make a new CVS branch that has these changes.

I'm assuming that most of you probably don't use Arch, so this would
be a way to keep you in the loop.  I would regularly sync changes
between CVS and Arch, much like I am doing now.

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