[Gaim-devel] Re: Gaim and smbclient

[Luke S. <lsc...@us...>]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 08:14:06PM +0400, Hassan Shaikh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Gaim for Win32 is still "down". When should we expect some good stable 
> code? Also, can you please add my request (mentioned below # 2) in a 
> wish-list? :)
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> HS

when someone is able to figure out the problem and figure out how to 
fix it. not a moment sooner.  We are all volunteers here, with limited 
time, limited resources, so on.  

#2 below is not something we will be looking at in the foreseeable 
future.

luke

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> Luke Schierer wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 12:58:30PM +0400, Hassan Shaikh wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>Hi Luke,
> >>
> >>(1) First of all, GAIM 1.1.3 on Win32 (Win 98SE and Win ME) is crashing 
> >>and gives GAIM.DLL error. I've seen couple of people posted bug reports 
> >>so I am sure your team is looking into it.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >I was under the impression that gtk has been crashing for windows 
> >98,98SE, and ME for nearly as long as we have had a win32 port, so I 
> >was surprised to see the bugs submitted since the 1.1.3 release, but 
> >yes, these will be looked into.
> >
> > 
> >
> >>(2) Second, I am using smbclient to receive "Winpopup protocol" based 
> >>messages from LAN users. Can I invoke GAIM to display my incoming 
> >>message. I am looking at the possibility of using PERL (checking GAIM 
> >>site) but would love to learn about any command-line options that GAIM 
> >>supports. Don't wanna write a plug-in just to display incoming messages.
> >>
> >>http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html  (Look under message 
> >>command).
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >perl would almost certainly not be able to do this (there is no 
> >existing Protocol Plugin for the messages to be "from"), but C may be 
> >able to. plus, unless patches are submitted, as per the home page, 
> >perl is not something that should be depended on.
> >
> >luke
> >
> > 
> >
> >>Thanks.
> >>
> >>Hassan
> >>   
> >>
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