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 Adium was originally created by college student Adam Iser, and the first version, "Adium 1.0", was released in September 2001. This version supported only AOL Instant Messenger. The version numbers of Adium since then have followed a somewhat unusual pattern. There were several upgrades to Adium 1.0, ending with Adium 1.6.At this point, the Adium team began a complete rewrite of the Adium code expanding it into a multiprotocol messaging program. The Adium team intended for this to be Adium 2.0. It was eventually decided that, due to the major differences between Adium 1.0 and the rewritten version, the entire program would be renamed "Adium X." The version numbering began with the pre-release version "Adium X 0.50" and continued through the released version Adium X 0.89.1. However, the team finally decided to change the name back to "Adium", and as such "Adium 1.0" was released on February 2, 2007. The largest improvement in the new Adium was switching to libpurple to add support for IM protocols other than AIM; supported protocols now include ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, and Jabber/XMPP (including Google Talk). Most of the work on libpurple itself is done by the Pidgin team; the Adium team mostly works on the Adium X graphical user interface (GUI).  The development can be followed at Adium's trac page. The most significant change in Adium 1.0 was originally planned to be the switch from libpurple to joscar for implementing AIM, which would improve file transfer. However, the developers switched back to libpurple due to Apple's deprecation of the Java-Cocoa bridge. The improvements offered by joscar have since been added to libpurple. Adium has become so well known in the Macintosh community that Apple used Adium 0.89.1's build time in Xcode 2.3 as a benchmark for comparing the performance of the Mac Pro and PowerMac G5 Quad. |
