PebWuN - MSN Messenger for the hardcore

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IMPORTANT: PebWuN is no longer being maintained. There were too many problems with the shoddy code that I don't care to fix. If I get some time, I'll grab the most recent Pebrot code and go from there... But 'till then, check out Adium.

PebWuN is a text (ncurses) based MSN Messenger client written in Python. There really isnt that much to say about it, other than its really pretty and it works well with screen.

News

9/16/05: PebWuN 0.1.0-RC2 released! Updated libgmail, some other stuff... I forget. Nothing huge.
7/21/05: PebWuN 0.1.0-RC1 released! This should be the first stable, mostly working, release! A must-have.
7/20/05: Finally! A list of commands for PebWuN! Check it out here: command_reference.txt
7/19/05: PebWuN 0.0.7 released on CVS and tarball. Big new feature (thanks to OM) is GMail mail checking!
5/07/05: PebWuN 0.0.6 released on CVS! New features - can check maildir mailboxes and vi-style movement keys (^a,^e,^u,^d)
5/06/05: PebWuN 0.0.5 released! A couple of bug fixes and small graphical improvements.
2/25/05: PebWuN is currently at version 0.0.4 and this web page is launched.

Download

You can download PebWuN from SourceForge, or you can get the most recent code through CVS. There is a good how-to over at SourceForge (the module name is "pebwun"), or you can copy+paste this in to a terminal.


cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/pebwun login

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/pebwun co -P pebwun

The password is blank (just hit enter).

Screenshots

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FAQs

Why is the code so ugly?: I wrote it in grade 9, as I was learning Python. I'm currently working on cleaning it up though.
Is a list of commands available?: There sure is! command_reference.txt
So, how many people actually use PebWuN?: As of now, I know of ~~four~~ five people using it. If you like it (or hate it), mail me at wolever@ftml.net and tell me about it!
How do you use PebWuN?: I leave it running on my server at home, then connect to it using SSH and screen, meaning I can access it from anywhere in the world. There is a good description of screen over at the Linux Journal web page (this is a great magazine, if you were wondering) and if you get problems with pesky firewalls blocking port 22, change it to listen on 443 (https) - unless they are using packet-level filtering, you should have no problems.
What is your development enviroment of choice?: Why, Vim of course!
Why doesn't this FAQ help me?: Beats me! You could e-mail me wolever@ftml.net and maybe I can help you!

Links

Pebrot - Pebrot, written by Angel Luis Jimenez Martinez, is the great little program PebWuN is based on.