new pidgin

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 2, 2008, at 23:15, Daniel J. Luke wrote:

> 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.

Maybe I don't understand the issue, but it seems like it would be  
simpler to just have a checkbox in the preferences, or something,  
rather than fork the whole project.