Allow implementation to be chosen per protocol or per account

[jbarbero@…]

Moving from #272 on Wilmer's suggestion.

I'd love to be able to select between the built-in (libgaim?) and the libpurple implementations per protocol or even per account.

Basically, I use Bitlbee for all IM needs, but recently at work more and more people have started using office communicator system instead of AIM. I don't much like it, and wouldn't use it, but we've been required to use it for some things. I use the third-party sipe libpurple module for pidgin, but I'd love it if I could use bitlbee for this. I could just run bitlbee with --purple enabled, but I trust bitlbee's implementations more, plus it's far better tested. So this is just a really wishlist-kind of request, and I imagine it can't be very easy. I gather from Wilmer's comment that it's tricky to do, so I'm just noting this as something that would be nice.

Thanks again for Bitlbee! It's the best thing since sliced bread...

Also, if you think I could help with this, let me know. I've done a lot of C in the past, but I have no idea how approachable the task would be for an outside, or what design considerations impede it.

[Wilmer van der Gaast <wilmer@…>]

BTW, with some changes to the configure script (ust remove the jabber=0 msn=0 etc lines) you can already get this. vmiklos was looking at a full fix for this last night.

[anonymous]

Ah, a fellow Hungarian! :)

Thanks, I'll play around with the config script.

[dx]

Just adding here my version of the patch (which i wrote a few months ago)

[dx]

This got merged in 3.2.2