Wikipedia:Pidgin (software), the multi-protocol client tool based on libpurple written in C. The number one reason to use it is because it has such a pretty integration of OTR encryption, but there is also a reliability issue with OTR (see Talk:Encryption).

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Pidgin and PSYC

Another reason is, it is pretty well architected for supporting multiple protocols. It shouldn't be hard to add another one. Since the client-side structure of things in XMPP and PSYC are so similar, I thought of taking the Jabber source code tree and adapting it to the new protocol.

<CoopDot> They have a howto and maybe someone can be convinced to do this as a SoC project.


Update: Marenz has started working on this.

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purplepsyc

The code to purplepsyc, a psyc plugin for purple is available at

git://supraverse.net/purplepsyc.git

Currently, the only thing it supports is connecting to saikound using gnutls and establishing a link to its identity (aka, subscribing to its _links channel). Nothing more.

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libpurple gateway service for PSYC

See Gateway#Centralistic.