Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin

Re:Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin by djha-skin on Monday March 06, 2023 @06:23PM (#35049308)

Eion Robb has done an incredible amount of work in this space. His GitHub page[1] has tons of plugins, and I particularly appreciate the work he has done on the Matrix plugin to make it available to Windows users.

Lest you think this is less than cool because you don't use Pidgin, bitlbee[2] is a great tool to get slack (and others!) into your IRC client. I haven't run it myself, but I know that it heavily relies on purple[3] for its magic. I can tell it gets a lot of use, perusing the issues on the slack purple plugin[4] for example.

1: https://github.com/EionRobb?tab=repositories

2: https://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html

3: https://wiki.bitlbee.org/

4: https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple/issues?q=is%3Aissue...

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Re:Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin by Shish2k on Monday March 06, 2023 @07:15PM (#35049799)

> I particularly appreciate the work he has done on the Matrix plugin to make it available to Windows users.

I am horrified yet morbidly curious how an IM protocol plugin ended up being OS-specific in the first place o_O?

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Re:Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin by djha-skin on Monday March 06, 2023 @07:24PM (#35049864)

Less OS specific and more "compilable", he took a plug in that was written in C and made sure it was cross-platform enough and compiled it on Windows for us.

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Re:Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin by themoonisachees on Monday March 06, 2023 @11:22PM (#35051514)

The protocol is far from being os-specific, but it does call for a lot of crypto facilities calls, which if you're not careful you might end up making os-specific.

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Re:Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin by oblio on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @09:02AM (#35055408)

Is there a reason these plugins aren't directly available in Pidgin?

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