Why not keep MGTwitterEngine for StatusNet/Laconica? As far as I know, it
still works, yes, since they are still on some variant of API 1.0?

Moses

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 4:56 AM, Thijs Alkemade <m...@thijsalkema.de> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:08:48AM -0400, Frank D wrote:
> > With Twitter switching to the 1.1 API and shutting down 1.0, I've
> > upgraded Adium's support to work with it.
> >
> > Since MGTwitterEngine hasn't been updated in over two years I went
> > looking for a newer framework and found one listed on Twitter's dev
> > site and I also found another one on GitHub. Both seem immature in
> > code quality and completion. I decided to go with the cleaner
> > STTwitter[1] rather than the synchronous FHSTwitterEngine[2].
> >
> > Notes about STTwitter:
> > * It supports xAuth, but Twitter says that the Adium
> > account/application can't login through xAuth.
> > * My biggest complaint about it is that the creator's commit messages
> > which are mostly "misc".
> > * I forked STTwitter on GitHub on my account, we could (and maybe
> > should) fork it on the Adium account.
> >
> > I've also disabled Laconica/StatusNet support as it doesn't look like
> > many people use it in Adium and upgrading the framework to support it
> > would be more work.
> >
> > I've got the changes committed in both 1.7 and 1.6 and will transplant
> > back to 1.5.7 after a little testing has been done. Let's find those
> > regressions!
> >
> > 1: https://github.com/nst/STTwitter
> > 2: https://github.com/fhsjaagshs/FHSTwitterEngine
> >
> > --
> > Frank
> >
>
> Another downside buildbot just pointed out: this is assuming the modern
> Objective-C runtime (it assumes automatically generated ivars for
> properties), which is not available in 32-bit mode.
>
> I have not checked how much effort it would be to fix that (probably
> relatively straightforward), but if it does come down to having to drop
> 32-bit builds then I don't think we should release it with 1.5.7.
>
> Thijs
>

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