mgoral / carbons

Experimental XEP-0280: Message Carbons plugin for libpurple (Pidgin, Finch, etc.)

carbons 0.2.1

Experimental XEP-0280: Message Carbons plugin for libpurple (Pidgin, Finch, etc.)

Installation

Linux

1. Install the dependencies (libpurple-dev, libglib2.0-dev, libxml2-dev)
2. git clone https://github.com/gkdr/carbons.git
3. cd carbons
4. make
5. A final make install should copy the plugin into your libpurple plugin dir.

MacOS

Install dependencies using Homebrew.

brew install glib libxml2

Get a copy of the libpurple soure (from Pidgin), and prepare it so we can use it during the build.

hg clone https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/main pidgin
cd pidgin
hg checkout v2.10.12
./configure $(./configure --help | grep -i -- --disable | awk '{ print $1 }')

make LIBPURPLE_CFLAGS=-I${PWD}/pidgin/libpurple LIBPURPLE_LDFLAGS=/Applications/Adium.app/Contents/Frameworks/libpurple.framework/libpurple LJABBER=

Windows

Thanks to EionRobb, you can find a compiled dll to put in your plugin folder here: https://eion.robbmob.com/xmpp-carbons/

If you want to compile it yourself, you can make use of the Makefile.mingw also provided by EionRobb. For this, you have to set up a build environment as described in https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/BuildingWinPidgin .

Usage

Unlike in previous versions, there is no need to interact with the plugin. On startup, it sends a feature discovery request to the server and automatically enables message carbons if the server lists it among its supported features.

If something is not working right, consult the debug window.

Caveats

Note that this only synchronizes messages of devices that are online at the same time - for history synchronization, MAM is needed.