Played around a bit today with Adium beta, and Gaim, to get Bonjour running. It kinda works, moreso on the desktop than the laptop – mostly because of a bug in one of the libraries, which causes Adium to report that it’s listening on a port where it’s not listening for incoming connections. I tried for a bit today to find the bug in the code, but haven’t so far. Maybe if I’m feeling like it tomorrow, I’ll get the code to compile on the laptop, and then I can properly debug it.
What gets me is that this bug has apparently been known for awhile, but not fixed. I think they’re waiting for the original maintainer of the library to swoop in with a new version, but .. the code is 2 years old, I don’t think it’s happening. So maybe if I find it and submit a patch, they’ll fix the code before the final version comes out. Or they’ll sit on it until the next major release, which at the rate they’re putting out new versions could be another year or so.