[Gossip-dev] Re: [Telepathy] Telepathy Status

[Mikael Hallendal]

Jimen Ching wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Martyn Russell wrote:
>> Nothing is going back and forth. The Telepathy implementation has always
>> been a protocol implementation in Gossip. All _I_ did was move the
>> directory to the protocols/ directory.
> 
> Eitan's first patch had the Telepathy interface in the src directory.  I 
> believe he intended to bypass libgossip, because he believed they were 
> redundant.  From the last email from him on this topic, it sounds like 
> he's still pushing this approach (i.e. remove libgossip).  I can be wrong, 
> since Eitan hasn't documented his plan or design in detail.

We will not remove libgossip in favor of direct interfacing with
Telepathy any time soon. Simply because of the fact that Telepathy is
largely untested but even when it's proven software we might want to
keep our own XMPP backend for using on Mac OS X and Windows.

Best Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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