Re: [Gaim-devel] libyahoo2 integration?

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

On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 10:44:36AM -0700, Jeff Frost wrote:

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> 
> Yah, copying and pasting from the features list.  You're right conferencing is 
> what I was getting at.  I wonder if you guys intend to interface with the 
> yahoo chat servers sometime in the future for supporting yahoo chat.  The best 
> thing I've seen for yahoo chat on linux so far is byach which isn't too good.  

as sean said, as soon as he has some free time to get a gui working that will support
it better than the current aim-ish group chat gui we currently have. He also said he 
knows how it works, so it won't be hard once the gui is in place.

> 
> > It really make no sense to abandon our code which is custom-built for 
> > Gaim to impliment a "library" based on the above code just to support 
> > a few features that don't yet have UI's                               
> 
> See, that was my mistake. I thought this libyahoo2 was derived from the
> libyahoo that was included in gaim currently and possibly just a branch of it
> (which might get merged back in in the future), but it sounds like that is not
> the case at all.  That's just me showing my ignorance about the development
> efforts.

that's what's really really odd. Gaim has had the protocols as plugins almost as long
as we've supported multiple protocols, and except for jabber's use of libfaim (oscar) for the
aim transport, no one else wants to touch them, so alot of work gets re-done instead of people
working together to extend our joint capabilities.

luke

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