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ive been working on it recently, and have gotten further than before...
but quite obviously i need some help....

the most important thing that it needs is an inter thread communication framework, as the one i designed is buggy and doesnt work on linux when the thread is in a shared .so library. (bugs pop up when source gets too big, so separating is better)

to see the code, follow the svn instructions at http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=173263

let me know if your interested in doing this, or whether i should let it die completely

is there really a need for all those dll dependencies?, I thought the idea of a PB messenger was to make it light and pure (cross-platform without tons of dependencies, small footprint, etc)

it has one dependency; libcurl. yes, libcurl needs those dlls on windows, and i believe there are similar libraries on linux, although they get shared on linux.

as for the msys- ones, those are for msn challenge support, as it is very difficult to reimplement the hashing algorithm.

most projects use many dependencies, its just the way things are. and a few dlls is not a ton of dependencies.

did they change the protocol that much that you must use those libraries now?, back in msnp7-8 you could do the nexus part and everything else without the need of anything but PB and its built-in libraries... only hashing involved was md5 and only win-api dependency was for SSL.

yeah, it is possible to use winapi to do the SSL stuff, but puremessenger is now to be cross platform, so it uses libcurl on all platforms. the msys dlls are for the chl.exe program, as i couldnt get it to compile in VC++