MBPurple 0.2.1 for PortableApps

New Microblog-Purple for Pidgin 2.5 PortableApps, where you can store your Pidgin on thumbdrive and bring it wherever you go, is released! Download it here

Thanks to rottnkorpse for very quick help!

Adium port for MBPurple released!

Thanks for @jsippel for your hard work. Now the first release of Adium port for #mbpurple is here (base on 0.2.1). Enjoy!

MBPurple 0.2.1 released!

It's about 3 months from the last release. This release contains both major & minor bug fixes and some enhancement, mainly to Twitgin. Please proceed to download the latest release here

Don't forget to enable Twitgin in Tools->Plugin This version contain major bug fixes and some improvements

• Twitter, Identica, and Laconica now serve mainly as protocol only plug-in. You need to enable Twitgin in order to get old fancy output in conversation windows
• Fix SSL connection bug that may crash Pidgin when connection is unstable
• Clicking reply link now add in_reply_to_id http parameter (make the message appear sa "reply to message" in web-site)
• Remove "twitter.com" label. Now conversation showed as if coming from each individual user
• Add * (Favorite) and RT (Retweet) link for easy favorite and retweet (thanks to @nopparat)
• Move "Enable reply link" preference to Twitgin "Configure plug-in".

We are also working on Adium port of MBPurple. Hopefully this will be released very soon!

MBPurple 0.2.0 is released

For almost 3 months of development, now Microblog-purple version 0.2.0 is released, with some more features. This is also a major code restructuring to allow more services on MBPurple.

• Beta support for Identi.ca and Laconica, as separated plug-ins.
• A bit of improvement in message display
• Improve Twitgin support, no self-generated message also being renice
• Support for 2 commands, right now it only works for Twitter.
• /replies - get replies timeline
• /refresh - get new tweets immediately
• /tag, /btag, /untag - automatically tag all your message, good for tagging messages with some hash tag (Example: #election2008).
• Lots more configurable options in Plug-in.

Note that, this new version is INCOMPATIBLE with older version, so you will need to remove and re-add the plug-in to get all new features. You will be prompted a warning message if you still using the old plug-in.
All users are recommended to upgrade. Proceed to MBPurple and download the 0.2.0 now. Instruction for Ubuntu (8.10.1 interpid ibek) is here. Thanks to @sugree for ppa package!

autoconf + Mingw is not working on Windows

Today I try to merge Makefile and Makefile.mingw on #mbpurple project. At first I thought it should be easy, since I had some experience with automake + autoconf + libtool. Somehow it turn out unsuccess because of few things

1. Pidgin use Mingw. Mingw has a separate system tree from Cygwin. It doesn't understand /home/username, which is only available through Cygwin shell. So all include header files which use absolute path failed. Relative path is a must.
2. From #1, many internal command of automake and libtool assume absolute path, so the path generated from these tools are unusable by makefile itself. For example, dependencies generated in .Plo contains c:\Cygwin\blah\blah, Cygwin Makefile treat this as "multiple target presence", then failed.
   
3. The speed of execution on Windows is slow. automake will invoke config.sub and missing when something's changed. Sometimes perl just crash. This has almost no effect on Linux since execution of libtoolize && aclocal && autoheader && automake && autoconf is quick enough, but not the case for Windows.

So I decided to revert back to just plain Makefile and have a variable to detect for Cygwin. Maybe this is another reason that Pidgin on windows is built using Makefile only.

Microblog-Purple 0.1.2

Last week I create 2 releases of #mbpurple (Microblog-purple), a plug-in for Pidgin that make you communicate with Microblog like twitter.com. Latest release is 0.1.2. These releases fix lots of bug that occurred when there's something wrong with network connection, which may crash Pidgin. At least for me it's very stable now. Also, a potential memory leak has been fixed too.

Download it at Microblog-Purple project page.