Much along the lines of Hal’s Jabber ideas, I’ve been thinking that someone should code up TortoiseDarcs. I mean TortoiseCVS and TortoiseSvn are well used in the win32 world to provide a friendly interface to the user, so it’s about time we had one for darcs too.

So when you’ve done it, let me know

If you’re interested in trying out Nolan’s work on the MUC interface in Psi then grab one of my builds.

Quick summary of events for HalR9000:

• I’m using the VS.Net 2003 build environment. I happen to have ActivePerl installed too.
• Grab CVS version of Psi – requires CVS client like TortoiseCVS
• Get Qt, and QCA libraries as described on the Psi development page
• Applied patch for QCA to get it to work under VS.Net 2003
• Build using makewin.bat
• Profit!!!

If you want to build the MUC version then:

• Get a native Win32 build of Arch – don’t forget to upgrade to 1.3 (I never tested 1.2, but I know 1.3 works)
• Follow example instructions and check out copy of Nolan’s Arch Archive

I had to hand edit some imports to get it to compile (just changed ‘using XMPP::XMPP;’ to ‘using namespace XMPP;’ in two header files). I was chatting to Nolan at the time, so I’m sure these fixes will go into his development archive too.

Update: I changed the link at the top to point to the list of builds. My first manual build is still available. (This archive only has the bare minimum of files, you must copy all other files from another Psi installation. If you Qt library is not version 3.3.4 then you must rename it to qt-mt334.dll. Nolan also informs me that it’s missing the required iconset files.)

Things I’m busy with in the Jabber world:

• irc transport
• msn transport
• Psi

So again more mailing lists.

I’m watching the msn transport for file transfer and status messages. The irc transport I’ve been watching for ages now, and I help Mike with patches for the transport.

I’ve been using Psi for a long while now, and I’m starting to get bored with the slow release cycle. So I’ve been trying out alternate builds. I’m also planning on doing daily CVS builds, and MUC builds too.

okay, so I’ve been very quiet over the past few weeks after struggling with ipsec. I’ve actually been doing a hang of a lot of things, which I will proceed to post individually.