Pidgin 2.7 nightlies
As of this morning, my Pidgin developer builds for Windows now unzip to a folder named “pidgin-2.7.0devel-win32bin“. This means that after the release of 2.6.6, the Pidgin developers have switched the trunk source code to development for Pidgin 2.7.
The immediate change for users of my builds is that they now depend on the GTK+ 2.14 [...]
New GTK+ for Pidgin nightlies
Those of you using my nightly Pidgin builds for Windows will (probably) be pleased to hear that they are back online after a couple of weeks of broken builds.
The problem appears to be related to the usage of the Pango function pango_layout_is_ellipsized() in a revision of the Pidgin code around 29th of January. This bumps [...]