[Gaim-devel] Announce: OpenGAIM project

[Todd V. <tv...@du...>]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Christian Hammond wrote:

: Stop complaining and just patch gaim.

OK, will do.  But realize that "just patch" for a feature DOES NOT imply
only changing source code -- binary packaging is involved too.  Not everyone
can or does build from source, and this sort of response leaves Win32 users
in the dust.

So, since there will be no concessions made on the part of the Gaim
maintainers, I'm being forced into a corner.  I don't like this situation,
but it has become necessary.  I therefore must announce:

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The OpenGaim project has been launched to provide a version of the Gaim
instant messaging client (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/) containing
additional features requested by users which are not available in the Gaim
project's distribution.

OpenGaim will be maintained as a loose relative of the Gaim codebase, and
will contain at least as many features as the Gaim project's distribution.
While the project will continue to strive to preserve the core/UI split and
other superb architecture aspects of the Gaim codebase, OpenGaim will also
aim to provide increased customizability for advanced end users and
increased frequency of releases to fix major problems early.

The first release of OpenGaim should be out the second or third week of
April.

    http://opengaim.sourceforge.net/

Contributing developers are welcome.

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-- Todd Vierling <tv...@du...> <tv...@po...>