Libpurple

Libpurple is the library which provides network-level connectivity for most services in Adium. Like Adium itself, it is licensed under the GPL. In addition to Adium, libpurple is the core of the Linux and Windows IM clients  Pidgin and  Finch. It is described further by  a page in the Pidgin wiki.

Libpurple was previously named Libgaim.

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Development Notes

The following notes are for use by the Adium team.

Propagating a tagged release to a specific branch (e.g. 2.7.4):

mtn explicit_merge t:v2.7.4 h:im.pidgin.adium im.pidgin.adium

This merges the tagged revision v2.7.4 with the head of the branch (im.pidgin.adium) and puts the result on im.pidgin.adium. This is the alternative to a simple

mtn propagate im.pidgin.pidgin im.pidgin.adium

which is equivalent to

mtn explicit_merge h:im.pidgin.pidgin h:im.pidgin.adium im.pidgin.adium

and would therefore merge up to the HEAD of im.pidgin.pidgin.