Re: NEW: net/purple-hangouts

On 01/01/18 23:49, Brian Callahan wrote:
> Hi ports --
>
> Attached is a new port, net/purple-hangouts. purple-hangouts is a Google
> Hangouts plugin for libpurple.
>
> ---
> pkg/DESCR:
> purple-hangouts is a replacement prpl for Hangouts in Pidgin/libpurple
> to support the proprietary protocol that Google uses for its Hangouts
> service. So far it supports all the fun things that aren't part of the
> XMPP interface, such as Group Chats, synchronised history between
> devices and SMS support via Google Voice.
> ---
>
> Only lightly tested on amd64, but all appears OK.
>
> OK?

Have used this for months in OpenBSD (various previous revisions in the
upstream repo, of course). It works pretty well, some minor freezes in
Pidgin when coming from idle, but I can live with that in exchange for
all the goodies that it brings over using your Google account through
XMPP. Basically offline messages and inline images for me.

So, yeah, thank you for packaging this! ;-]