From: Luke S. <lsc...@gm...> - 2002-06-16 17:03:32
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>Hi >I use GAIM on Linux & found it pretty cool. However it >does not have file transfer facility: > >So: > >1) Is it being worked on ? Several people have looked at it at various times. i believe werdna in #gaim is working on it for one of the protocols now. >2) If not, why ? I'd like to work on file transfer to File transfer isn't wanted by any of our developers. Naturally, being volunteers, we work on things that interest us first. file transfer is also kinda complex, you can't just add file transfer for one protocol, though you can add support for file transfer to a single protocol. that sounds contradictory: we don't allow gtk to be in a protocol's code. Because of this, to implement file transfer, someone would have to write a generic file transfer interface, then code to talk to to the protocol plugin (for the purposes of development, oscar and toc are plugins because they can be compiled as such), then code in the protocol plugin(s) of your choice to make use of that interface. this 3 part proceedure is more than most people are willing to consider doing. >AOL IM users. Can anyone point to any available docs. >& how to start on it ? this is the other part that makes file transfer hard for someone to just start coding. for oscar, there are incomplete docs at aimdoc.sf.net and www.kingant.net but for the most part, you will have to reverse engineer the protocol. and you will have to work in terms of packet captures to debug. hope this helps. luke |