Re: [Gaim-devel] File Transfer

[Sean E. <bj...@bi...>]

On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 15:47, Aaron Schumacher wrote:
> > 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
> 
> So it seems the first step is this File Transfer Interface; has this
> been created by anyone who is working on this?  Is there a draft
> document or anything like that? 

There have been several third-parties that have made their own api's,
but then I guess their interest in the project dwindled.  We are
currently working on our own "official" spec and code to impliment it.

> Seems to me that once you have this
> specified, people could work independantly to do specific protocols
and
> whatnot, plus someone else could make the gui side of it.

Of course--but probably, the UI will just happen alongside the
API--that's just the way things evolve.  The protocols are easy, anyway.

> On another note: is it better to have discussions of this type here on
> the mailing list, or in the forums on the sourceforge project site (or
> somewhere else)?

The sourceforge forums are so clumsy to use--so are the trackers and
whatnot.  It really has a terrible interface, I think... I don't know
how they make money off of it.  Here is good if you want to make sure
everyone gets the message--if you just want to talk to anybody, try
#gaim.

-S