Re: How to add new protocol to Fire?

On Nov 2, 2004, at 2:12 AM, Pawel Piecuch wrote:
> I would like to add to Fire support for the most popular IM service in  
> Poland called Gadu-Gadu. Could you give a few hits where to start from  
> and what code of Fire I should take a look?

There is a feature request open on adding this service:

[ 715431 ] Support For GaduGadu Protocol
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? 
func=detail&aid=715431&group_id=33772&atid=409173

As to adding new services to Fire... there are a couple of ways to do  
it. You could add a new FireBundle plug-in and simply copy one of the  
other services and reimplement the *Service and  
*CommunicationController classes. Most of the libraries we use also  
need C callbacks and we put those in a *CFunctions.m class which calls  
into the CommunicationController for that service.

A couple of things to keep in mind... 1) we're doing a fairly  
significant update to the architecture for Fire 1.2 (the feature  
release after next). This is currently on the ServiceUpdate branch in  
CVS. The tip of tree CVS is going to be Fire 1.1.

Another idea which we have talked about at various points is to  
implement compatability with Gaim plug-ins from within Fire. If we  
implemented this it would allow us to pick up any services we currently  
lack from Gaim (which I believe already supports GaduGadu).

Let us know what direction you want to pursue and we can talk about  
what is needed in more detail.

-Jason



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