new pidgin

[Daniel J. Luke]

On May 2, 2008, at 9:40 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On May 2, 2008, at 12:47 PM, MAS! wrote:
>>> I had a look for the new pidgin once and decided to not
>>> update pidgin as I disagree with the new features such
>>> as automatic resize of the input text area.
>>
>> I see.. btw, IMHO, that's a real pity :(
>
> Yeah, that doesn't sound like a good reason not to update the port.  
> If a new version of software is released, the port should be updated  
> to that version (assuming it compiles on our supported platforms and  
> such). If there's a need for keeping the older version around, then  
> I agree with the previous poster who said a new port should then be  
> created (by copying the older version of the pidgin port).


I think this change has actually caused the pidgin project to fork, so  
there's probably an alternate port that could be created from the  
forked code that doesn't have the resizing input text area.

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