bitlbee support?

[The-Compiler]

Does anyone have lurch running with BitlBee (an IRC to IM gateway which can use libpurple) by any chance?

I've tried it (after double-checking that I'm indeed using XMPP via libpurple and not its own XMPP support), but unfortunately, //lurch help (with a double slash to escape it from my IRC client) just gets sent to the contact I'm speaking to - not sure how I could debug that kind of thing, so any help would be much appreciated!

[gkdr]

I have not tried it myself, but as far as I understand the plugin won't even load because of reasons not related to the plugin itself, but because of how Bitlbee handles libpurple plugins in general.
So I assume the command didn't work because the plugin was not loaded.

[EionRobb]

I believe @dequis was planning what needed to be changed in bitlbee to load non-prpl plugins, but that hasn't happened yet

[Hund]

What's the status on this? It would be really nice to be able to use this with bitlbee. :)

[EionRobb]

@Hund so the trouble is that bitlbee doesn't have any way of loading libpurple plugins, only libpurple protocols - as a horrible way to workaround that, I made https://github.com/EionRobb/purple-plugins-prpl which adds a new protocol type that has all the libpurple plugins as contacts that you can enable and disable - seemed to work ok with lurch when I tried it last (many years ago)

[Hund]

@Hund so the trouble is that bitlbee doesn't have any way of loading libpurple plugins, only libpurple protocols - as a horrible way to workaround that, I made https://github.com/EionRobb/purple-plugins-prpl which adds a new protocol type that has all the libpurple plugins as contacts that you can enable and disable - seemed to work ok with lurch when I tried it last (many years ago)

Thanks! I'll look into it. :)

I wouldn't hesitate replacing bitlbee, but unfortunately there not a single XMPP-client that comes even close to be as usable as WeeChat with bitlbee. It just sucks that bitlbee doesn't have any modern features like support for OMEMO, carbons, http file uploads or message archive management. :/