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| Redesign libpurple integration | | Redesign libpurple integration | ||
| | | Currently Thunderbird can have additional protocols added to them via libpurple. This is distributed separately because of licensing compatibilities. There is a shim later (called purplexpcom) which translates from Thunderbird's chat interfaces to libpurple's interfaces. Unfortunately this is: | ||
| C++, XPCOM, JavaScript | |||
* Time consuming to maintain | |||
* Difficult to compile | |||
* Requires re-compilation for each Thunderbird version | |||
* Is not binary compatible with system libpurples | |||
It is desirable to experiment with different ways to interact with libpurple to redesign this interface. Potential experiments include: | |||
* Using js-ctypes to interact with the libpurple binary component (instead of C++ XPCOM code) | |||
* Spawn a separate sub-process and use IPC to communicate with libpurple | |||
* Compile libpurple to JavaScript with emscripten | |||
Requires understanding of: C, C++, XPCOM, JavaScript | |||
| C, C++, XPCOM, JavaScript | |||
| Patrick Cloke | | Patrick Cloke | ||
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