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papyon is an MSN library purely written in Python. It is the library behind the Telepathy MSN connection manager, telepathy-butterfly. papyon is a fork of the unmaintained [[pymsn|http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Pymsn]] MSN library. The GLib mainloop is used to process the network events in an asynchronous manner.
## Get papyon
Papyon releases are here:
* [[http://www.freedesktop.org/software/papyon/releases/|http://www.freedesktop.org/software/papyon/releases/]]
To get the latest development branch:
* git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/papyon
## Features
Here is a quick features list :
* MSNP15
* Best MSNP2P implementation : avatars and custom emoticons
* Yahoo messenger contacts support : chat and presence
* Live Address Book support : full contact and group management
* Server side contacts aliasing
* Offline messages support
* MSN Spaces
* Content Roaming support : avatar, display name and personal message storage
* Full support for HTTP and HTTPS proxies
* Support HTTP Polling transport
* No threads, fully asynchronous
* Caching system (only used for storing the SSO tickets for now, but will be used to support deltas in the [[AddressBook|AddressBook]] later)
* Very solid and extensible architecture
* Solid networking through a new sublibrary : gnet
## Dependencies
papyon depends on:
* python >= 2.5
* python gobject >= 2.10.1
* ElementTree >= 1.2.0 or cElementTree >= 1.0.5 or python >= 2.5
* pyOpenSSL >= 0.6
* gst-python >= 0.10
* python-farsight
* pyCrypto >= 2.0.0
## Try it
to give papyon a try, run the test.py python code, this will connect to the MSN IM service, and try to fetch the first online contact's display picture:
* `python test.py`
## Report bugs
To report bugs, use the [[freedesktop.org|http://www.freedesktop.org]] bugzilla [[here|https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=papyon]].
## Help out
The things that are still to be done in papyon can be found in the [[TODO|PapyonTODO]] page.
## Documentation
* Generate the documentation with `python setup.py doc` (you need _epydoc_)
* Doc is generated in `doc/user-api/` directory
* This link can help : [[pymsn article : the crack-powered address book|http://jprieur.wordpress.com/2007/08/24/pymsn-article-the-crack-powered-address-book/]]
## Troubleshooting
### OverflowError: long too big to convert
If you get something like that:
* _Overflow Error: long too big to convert (while registering property 'bytes-transferred' for GType 'papyon+msnp2p+P2PMessage')_
you probably would need to update your python gobject binding. This is a known bug of python gobject that was fixed in python gobject 2.10.1.
## Contact
You can contact developers using IRC: #papyon on irc.freenode.net
## Mailing lists
There are two mailing lists:
* [[papyon|http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/papyon]] for general discussion about papyon;
* [[papyon-bugs|http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/papyon-bugs]] where bugzilla will automatically send bugmail to.
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