Re: [Gaim-devel] Yet Another Oscar File Transfer Patch

[William T. M. <wt...@du...>]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:47:15PM -0400, Brian Ferris wrote:
> 
> -Send and receive single files, multiple files, directories, and even
> have multiple OFT sessions going for the same buddy

For comparison, the same applies to my patch except for sending
multiple files (I'm working on that).

> -Threaded for your pleasure

Mine isn't threaded, mainly because I didn't see any other threading
in the Gaim code.  Is anyone strongly for or against using threads?

> -A handy way of displaying active transfers as sub-entries in the buddy
> list (see http://www4.ncsu.edu/~bdferris/Gaim.jpg for an example ).

This looks nice--Brian's patch obviously has a more advanced GUI than
mine right now.  I don't have a progress bar, ETA, etc., although I
think Rob Flynn said he had some ideas about a generic file transfer
interface.

> This patch is different from the one under development by "wmahan".
> Instead of fixing the code in ft.c, I went from scratch. The only thing
> this patch offers in the way of innovation (oft is oft is oft) is the
> nested transfer UI element.  As far as I can tell, I kept the UI
> code

Yes, it looks like our approaches our fairly different.  But I've
already talked to Brian about possible future collaboration, in the
hope that Gaim will benefit regardless of which patch is ultimately
accepted.

> completely out of the oscar protocol tree, but I did make some
> significant additions to core gaim code.  I'm all for joining forces
> with other OFT efforts if need be.

I'm always glad to have some friendly competition. :)  I'll try to
take a more detailed look at your code when I get a chance.

-- Wil