Adium 1.3 has finally been released!
In addition to tons of overall improvements, this release includes the new BSD-Licensed AutoHyperlinks Framework, which offers many, many improvements over the old architecture.
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Reentrant AutoHyperlinks & API changes
So, right now I’m working on AutoHyperlink’s thread safety. Luckily for us, flex - the lexical analyzer AH uses to check a URI’s validity - allows us to create a reentrant lexer.
Combined with some API refactoring I’m doing (AHHyperlinkScanner works much like NSScanner now), it’ll be a nice slick little framework that’s thread safe and nice to work with.
I’m planning on committing the source post Adium 1.3 branch since it plays with API elements and I don’t want any surprise regressions to hold up release, but, if you’re curious, you can get a patch to apply to Adium’s svn trunk here.
[Update:] Just a quick edit to add that this version of the framework, which is included in Adium’s svn tunk and will be released alongside Adium 1.3, will be dubbed AutoHyperlinks.framework 1.0 and added to the maccode repository.
Developer Links Plugin for Adium
I just popped a plugin target to Adium’s trunk that will linkify the trac’s shorthand for changesets and tickets. It’s still a bit janky, and not at all supported, but it makes things a bit easier when talking about tickets and the like.
It’s mostly recycled code from AutoHyperlinks, and for now it only supports Adium’s Trac. However, if you find yourself working on or talking about Adium code a lot, you can find it here: Developer Links Plugin.
Eventually, it’ll have a preferences GUI so you can bind it to your own project management system - even several. But for now, it just works for Adium.
AutoHyperlinks.framework Has Gone BSD
It was a lot of work getting everything in place in order to do that, but it feels good. I love you, Mac developers.