{"id":312,"date":"2016-02-02T22:59:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T09:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eion.robbmob.com\/blog\/?p=312"},"modified":"2016-02-02T22:59:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T09:59:07","slug":"a-hangouts-prpl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eion.robbmob.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/02\/a-hangouts-prpl\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hangouts Prpl"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Pidgin has fairly alrightish support for Hangouts through the XMPP server that Google provides. Unfortunately it’s missing a whole bunch of stuff – like group chats, self-sent messages et. al. – that make it just that little bit annoying to use.<\/p>\n

So we had a Summer of Code 2015 student<\/a> start work on a new pr<\/strong>otocol pl<\/strong>ugin (prpl)<\/a> for Pidgin. Unfortunately due to a few roadblocks (mostly around new stuff in libpurple3) it didn’t get completed, so I’ve spent the last too-many weeks implementing the pblite\/protobuf-json\/jsprotobuf protocol (TODO find a link for this one) that Google uses, in C using the amazing protobuf-c library<\/a> (in combination with the always awesome json-glib<\/a>), to begin work on a new Hangouts prpl for Pidgin.<\/p>\n

After the pblite-madness set in (seriously, that stuff will give you nightmares), Maiku<\/a> came on board to help, and now we have a plugin that’s at a ‘good enough’ state right now that people can start using it.<\/p>\n

We’ve taken inspiration from the Python-based Hangups library<\/a>, and used the authentication code that Nakul wrote as part of GSoC2015 to come up with some moderately-sane code that works for both Pidgin 2.x and those foolish enough to be using Pidgin 3. There’s still a lot of pieces of the puzzle missing (you’ll see what I mean when you try it), but I think it’s good enough now that I’ve ditched my XMPP account in favour of it.<\/p>\n

Please give it a go and tell us what you think. Just to be different, it’s over on BitBucket<\/a> instead of GitHub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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