[Nix-dev] pidgin-sipe

[Shea Levy]

Hi Kevin,

On 11/1/11 7:58 PM, Kevin Quick wrote:
> The current version of pidgin in SVN appears to be 2.9.0.  The pidgin-sipe
> package in the tree (1.10.0) will not build against that version.
> Updating the pidgin-sipe version to 1.12.0 with the corresponding hash and
> removing the patch allows pidgin-sipe to build successfully.

I've committed a change to update pidgin-sipe

>
> For usage I would suggest the derivation notify the user that they will
> need to link ~/.nix-profile/share/pidgin-sipe/libsipe.so to
> ~/.purple/plugins/libsipe.so (or something along those lines).
>

I haven't used pidgin in years, can you explain this? There's no good 
way to notify the user of needed actions beyond just running the build. 
If pidgin doesn't know how to find plugins outside of the ~/.purple 
path, maybe we could patch pidgin or run it in a wrapper so that it can 
find plugins elsewhere.

Cheers,
Shea