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What are the chances of this getting ported to linux. The interface on adium is nicer than anything available on linux and it would be nice to be able to run it.

Has anyone tried to compile adium on linux before, or are there parts in the source that require mac osx specific libraries, and if so what are those parts ?

thanks.

From the little I know, I can tell you that Adium uses libgaim, the technology used in the Gaim project (multi-protocol Linux client). So, technologically-speaking, Adium is similar to Gaim. As for the interface, et cetera, it doesn't seem like something that would be easy to port over (plus it would be a little redundant, no?). A dev or mod could probably shed a little more light on its feasibility.

Adium is written almost entirely in Cocoa, which is MacOS X specific. GNUStep could theoretically allow a port, but in practice it's likely to be impossible.

A while back someone had Adium (about 0.60 or so) running on GNUStep. No idea what came of that though.

It would be impossible to separate Adium from the Cocoa libraries, which are OS X specific, without basically totally rewriting it. That said, we are based on the same core as gaim, and share a number of features -- have you tried that?