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I can't tell the difference between IM and IRC in Adium. It's the best non-IRC, IRC client.

by kaylarose 15y ago

ciupicri 15y ago
Pidgin is another multi-protocol popular option.
- click170 15y ago
  Does Pidgin do IRC? I didn't think it did. I wanted to switch to Pidgin a while back because it had support for the kind of encryption I wanted (public key) and Adium didn't, but I ended up not doing it and I thought the reason was because Pidgin doesn't do IRC. Am I misinformed?
  - StavrosK 15y ago
    I just checked to make sure, it does. I think it's had it for years, too.
    - saurik 15y ago
      Yep: Pidgen has supported IRC so long that back when I was still using it, and the project hadn't yet been renamed from Gaim, it already supported it; it had a few stupidities, and didn't support userhost-masks for buddy bindings (something that simply "makes sense" if you use IRC enough), but it definitely worked and still does (I have friends who use it all the time for IRC, and one who even contributes patches to it).
  - sciurus 15y ago
    IRC is listed as a supported protocol on the front page of http://www.pidgin.im/ http://www.pidgin.im/
  - krakensden 15y ago
    The Pidgin developers are also the libpurple developers- if Adium supports it, so does Pidgin.
    - onedognight 15y ago
      This hasn't always gone the other way however. Adium finally added support for IRC recently, though pidgin and libpurple have had it for years.
  - Terretta 15y ago
    Both Pidgin and Adium are based on libpurple[1], which does support IRC. 1. http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhatIsLibpurple http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhatIsLibpurple "Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr."[2] 2. http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/pidgin http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/pidgin
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- darklajid 15y ago
  Uhm. Some clarifications. http://www.adium.im/about/ http://www.adium.im/about/ -> "Based on the _libpurple_ protocol library, Adium can connect you to any number of messaging accounts on any combination of supported messaging services (see further down for the list) and then chat with other people using those services." (Emphasis mine) http://trac.adium.im/wiki/LibPurple http://trac.adium.im/wiki/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. (...) Libpurple was previously named Libgaim. " So yeah, Pidgin is an option, because neither Adium nor Pidgin speak IRC, libpurple does. The support should be ~the same~, of course depending on the version of the library used. More info: http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhatIsLibpurple http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhatIsLibpurple

I can't tell the difference between IM and IRC in Adium. It's the best non-IRC, IRC client.

ciupicri 15y ago

Pidgin is another multi-protocol popular option.

click170 15y ago
Does Pidgin do IRC? I didn't think it did. I wanted to switch to Pidgin a while back because it had support for the kind of encryption I wanted (public key) and Adium didn't, but I ended up not doing it and I thought the reason was because Pidgin doesn't do IRC. Am I misinformed?
- StavrosK 15y ago
  I just checked to make sure, it does. I think it's had it for years, too.
  - saurik 15y ago
    Yep: Pidgen has supported IRC so long that back when I was still using it, and the project hadn't yet been renamed from Gaim, it already supported it; it had a few stupidities, and didn't support userhost-masks for buddy bindings (something that simply "makes sense" if you use IRC enough), but it definitely worked and still does (I have friends who use it all the time for IRC, and one who even contributes patches to it).
- sciurus 15y ago
  IRC is listed as a supported protocol on the front page of http://www.pidgin.im/ http://www.pidgin.im/
- krakensden 15y ago
  The Pidgin developers are also the libpurple developers- if Adium supports it, so does Pidgin.
  - onedognight 15y ago
    This hasn't always gone the other way however. Adium finally added support for IRC recently, though pidgin and libpurple have had it for years.
- Terretta 15y ago
  Both Pidgin and Adium are based on libpurple[1], which does support IRC. 1. http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhatIsLibpurple http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhatIsLibpurple "Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr."[2] 2. http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/pidgin http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/pidgin
- deleted 15y ago
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darklajid 15y ago
Uhm. Some clarifications. http://www.adium.im/about/ http://www.adium.im/about/ -> "Based on the _libpurple_ protocol library, Adium can connect you to any number of messaging accounts on any combination of supported messaging services (see further down for the list) and then chat with other people using those services." (Emphasis mine) http://trac.adium.im/wiki/LibPurple http://trac.adium.im/wiki/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. (...) Libpurple was previously named Libgaim. " So yeah, Pidgin is an option, because neither Adium nor Pidgin speak IRC, libpurple does. The support should be ~the same~, of course depending on the version of the library used. More info: http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhatIsLibpurple http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhatIsLibpurple