0.1 final has been released, and it's in -testing, please try and vote :)

I found some serious problems on this version that might affect users that a) have received offline messages and b) have libpurple installed.

So I pushed a .

Seem to work well.

As a suggestion: Could you "migrate" butterfly accounts to this one? After installing it I had to update all contacts. There could be a "sync" button somewhere to get addresses from butterfly or do this once at installation.

Works as advertised. I do not notice any battery drainage. Haven't tested other packages but some users have reported on talk.maemo.org drainage problem with other msn packages.

Power consumption is the CRITICAL feature here. Whilst I've not done measurements I've read some user commentary that indicated the old plugins were somewhat battery hungry.

On a power constrained device evaluation of power requirements should be pretty high up the list IMHO.

Basic chat seems to work fine for me here with pecan

No we shouldn´t drop this package since this MSN plugin is significantly more efficient in terms of energy consumption and system resources than the competition.

neutralised bogus -1 vote. Didn't actually test nor I ever will, because I don't use MSN

Actually I made a mistake; that package you mention uses telepathy-butterfly which is a totally different one.

Anyway, I'm explaining why msn-pecan is superior to both in this post.

While I agree it's confusing, I don't think packages should be denied because another package provides similar functionality (that's sounds like draconian Apple tactics to me).

Perhaps a way to say "this package is recommended by the community" would make more sense.

In any case, the "Extra protocol plugins" package uses libpurple's msn plugin, which I wrote long time ago[1]. Currently that plugin is not properly supported in upstream, as can be seen by their issue tracker, while msn-pecan on the other hand is actively fixing problems, and I'm even providing specific support for the N900.

I think it it would be unfair to punish this new project because of another one which is crappier (IMO).

As to merge the two plugins, that would require feedback from the maintainers of telepathy-haze, and libpurple.

[1] http://felipec.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/who-wrote-pidgins-msn-not-who-you-think/

Should we drop this package (or merge the development) since there is a MSN protocol plugin in 'Extra protocol plugins for Conversation & Contacts 0.7' package which has 'MSN protocol plugin for Conversations and Contacts 0.7' dependency.

Having both confuses the users.