[NTLUG:Discuss] Gaim werked fer me!

[Kevin Brannen]

Chris Cox wrote:

> lonny.dahl at verizon.com wrote:
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>> I actually had Gaim working on my computer at home.  That is, until I
>> completely hosed my system attempting to upgrage to KDE 3.2.  Since that
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> Gaim is a real porting pain btw across any platform.  As nice as
> Gaim is... if you can find something else (Kopete, whatever) that you
> can live with, you will be much better off IMHO.


I'll definitely second this!  Maybe I've just had really bad luck, but 
I've had such a hard time trying to compile gaim that I've essentially 
given up.  Of course, maybe it's not gaim's fault, but instead the fault 
of the 9,826 libraries they pull in. :-)  If anyone thinks the gnome 
development system (i.e. GTK) is great, go try to compile gaim from 
source.  But be careful, you may end up hating the GTK and everything 
gnome based by the time you're done.

A very GTK burnt...
Kevin