purple-matrix

someone could certainly pick up https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix and finish it.

EDIT: So I stumbled a bit across this too: https://pidgin.im/development/faq/ I can say first hand that the info in "How can I create a conversation with someone?" is flat out incorrect. Look here: https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix/blob/master/matr... Before you create a conversation, you need to add it to the blist (buddy list, which is NOT a list of contacts, but something different). If you don't, pidgin has issues displaying the chat! https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix/blob/master/matr... BUT, that will immediately SEGFAULT if you don't have functions such as: https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix/blob/master/libm... https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix/blob/master/libm... And a couple of others. I only found that because the Chatty dev was able to find this. Even with that, it refuses to remember that

Is there E2EE support for Matrix? Edit: Nope. https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix/issues/18

Much confusion here. There are three different Matrix projects related to libpurple: https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix is a very basic proof-of-concept PRPL plugin that lets a libpurple client like Pidgin or Adium or Purism's Chatty connect to Matrix. We wrote it as a demo to inspire others hoping that someone from the Pidgin community might pick it up and polish it, but sadly there hasn't been much progress. We don't have bandwidth to finish it off ourselves. Then there was matrix-appservice-purple (https://github.com/matrix-org/node-purple/tree/f5ad4ef798904...), which was a proof of concept bridge using node-purple which let Matrix connect to anything that libpurple can speak. We used it to demo bridging from Matrix into Skype via the skypeweb PRPL - but it was a very fragile quick hack demo. Then this was replaced by Bif

I wish they would help fix/maintain the Matrix-Purple bridge, which would allow more people to use riot servers with clients such as pidgin. https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix/issues/95

pidgin doesn’t support matrix out of the box; we did write a prpl a few years ago but it needs a maintainer to make it properly fit for purpose: https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix

I pulled the trigger, and I'll be sure to blog about it once I've used it for a while. I will admit I was a little worried how choppy the demo video of the dev-kit looks[1], but we'll see how it works once I get it. I'm a little bit worried that their "Chatty" messaging app[2] (which is what the default Matrix client will be) is based on libpurple -- which is a library that has a pretty gnarly history of security issues[3]. It is using a plugin that the Matrix developers wrote[4], which I trust more -- but I'm still queasy about it. I'm currently working on a Matrix-Signal bridge so I can continue using Signal once I switch to it (it won't have a native Signal app out-of-the-gate and I don't really want to run an Android emulator). [1]: https://puri.sm/posts/massive-progress-exact-cpu-selected-mi... [2]: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/cha

I was not aware that libpurple supported Matrix but there is a plugin: * https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix ... which in theory would work with: * https://spectrum.im/ ... running in XMPP gateway/transport mode...

I'm not sure it's fair to call it a massive blob of web technologies (although I'm biased, given I work on it). To compare sending a message on IRC versus sending one on Matrix: $ telnet irc.freenode.net 6667 ... NICK Ara4n USER Ara4n Ara4n irc.freenode.net :Matthew Hodgson ... JOIN #matrix PRIVMSG #matrix :test versus: curl "https://matrix.org/_matrix/client/r0/rooms/!cURbafjkfsMDVwdRDQ%3Amatrix.org/send/m…" -X PUT --data '{"msgtype":"m.text","body":"test"}' (okay, this assume you've grabbed a valid access_token from an existing session, and already know that #matrix:matrix.org's internal ID is !cURbafjkfsMDVwdRDQ:matrix.org, but that's easy to find by curling https://matrix.org/_matrix/client/r0/directory/room/%23matri...). Meanwhile definitely are some lightweight C matrix

there's a very basic and experimental pidgin plugin at https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix, but the impedance mismatch between purple2 and matrix is pretty bad (eg limited support for synchronised conversation history). It needs more features before it can be used in anger - patches welcome ;)