BSDforge™
FreeBSD ports, or other *BSD related projects, I created, maintain, host, or worked on. Following, are those in the net-im category.
- mbpurple
- mbpurple
is a plug-in for Pidgin to allow for seamless updating, and receiving of Twitter
messages.
While originally built for Pidgin it works for other LibPurple base clients like Adium, and Finch. Currently the plug-in works with Twitter only. - So what's the different between this and Twitter IM? The answer is this
would be kind of my personal replacement for the Twitter IM, since I spent
sometime waiting for the service to come back and don't want to wait anymore.
Besides, having it as a plug-in gives me some liberty to customize it in many
ways. Like modifying the message to link to hashtags or twitter user
(thanks @chanwit), or the ability to add special commands to it;
(/refresh, /replies, /etc...). I plan to have this in
Chat mode
instead of normal conversation windows for people who are easily annoyed by the constant incoming messages. - The plug-in is inspired by FacebookChat project
Installation
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On a FreeBSD system;
Using the ports system:cd /usr/ports/net-im/mbpurple make install clean
Using the pkg system:pkg install net-im/mbpurple
Versions
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Current version is: mbpurple-0.3.0
Links to source, and precompiles binaries for Mac OSX, Linux, and Windows comming soon!