Well I looked at bit more... libmsn seems at bit inactive. The website
listed at sourceforge isn't reachable and the SVN repo (assuming it's
the right one) has very little activity.
The Debian package lists an open bug about libmsn not being able to connect.
Reverse dependancies shows kopete as the only Debian package using libmsn.
So not really the state I was hoping for.
I think it's still more up to date and feature complete than our current
code so it might still be an improvement. The question is: Is it worth
the risk to start depending on it? Worst case would be that we'd have to
start maintaining on it ourselves.
Is there anyone here using Kopete who can tell if it's working well or
if there are any problems?
A quick check with "apt-cache search msn" gave me only two other
libraries: msnlib (which is python) and libpurple (see next answer
below) so there isn't much to choose from.
> Would it be an option to use libpurple or is it irrelevant (way too
> big and not focused on MSN)?
As libpurple has support for "all" protocols, it would just be a
protocol plugin, it would replace all the protocol plugins and most of
the Licq daemon. The way I see it, if we would start use libpurple, we
might as well just port the GUI to use the lib directly and then it
would no longer be Licq anymore, it would be a new client.