Yeah... don't know what I was doing with the -V to python. I think I was thinking of the old autogen that did a foo --version >/dev/null 2>&1, and since python doesn't support --version...
At any rate, cleaned up the rest of this
/*
* Infopane - Use different views for the details information in conversation windows.
_("This plugin is incompatible with the running version of Pidgin and Libpurple because it is too old. Please upgrade to the newest version of Pidgin."));