Pidgin 2.3

[kevmif]

Since this was released a few weeks ago and STILL does not appear to be in updates or updates-testing, I just installed the FC9 version out of the development repo. It seems to work fine, so for anyone else who doesn't want to compile from source, just do the following:

yum update pidgin --enablerepo development

This little application has come along way since the days of GAIM and I personally would like to see more community support and development resources thrown towards it!

[spartas]

I too have been waiting for Pidgin 2.3.0 (yes, the last zero is significant) to come to F8, but it seems that may not happen. I don't know if the devs plan on releasing 2.3.0 on F8 or not. Still running 2.2.2-1 (F8 default) here.

Oh look, just after checking the pidgin site, 2.3.1 is out now.

[kevmif]

bloody hell they are slow
Just install from dev like I did. No apparent issues from what I can see.

[spartas]

I went ahead and installed 2.3.0 from development, and I like the changes. From what I can recall, when Firefox 2 came out, we didn't get it until the next version of Fedora after it was released (Fedora 7). I would not be surprised if they decide to do the same thing with Pidgin.

I had a copy of Firefox 2 installed from the firefox site in /opt because FC6 only had 1.5. Now I'm demoing Firefox 3 Beta 1, and it's even nicer. I can't wait for Beta 2 in about 2 weeks.

The new Pidgin looks slicker (I like the cleaned up buddy list group headers).


I jumped ship from Ubuntu to Fedora because packages seemed more up to date with Fedora, and there's that minor thing where Ubuntu has too much hand-holding now (e.g. I don't want my shell providing me with recommendations on which packages I should install to get certain binaries/scripts).

2.3.0 has issues with MSN i think with its contact names, something like that, 2.3.1 or 2.3.2 has/will fix those, my guess thats why they never pushed 2.3.0 in the updates ,

will they Use Pidgin3 or go with 2.3.0 in Fedora9? who knows from what i can tell on the pidgin roadmap 3 should be out in a month or 2