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

[Xavier Claessens]

Le samedi 14 octobre 2006 à 01:06 +0200, Mikael Hallendal a écrit :
> 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.

For this point I agree, libgossip is a good design and is what made the
move to telepathy so "easy". Nobody knows what will be used as backend
in 5years... What Eitan suggested (and I agree) is GossipProtocol should
be at least reworked (if not removed completely) since telepathy is one
gossip-protocol that does all IM-protocols, but for now we can keep it,
the only limitation, afaik, is gossip_protocol_new_account() that can't
be used for telepathy which means we actually violate the libgossip
layer and call directly
gossip_telepathy_cmgr_new_account_from_protocol() from the UI.

All in all I think this discussion is now useless. All gossip developers
(and contributors) said they won't propose gossip-telepathy for GNOME
2.18, that's all. Let's see what we can do in the next 6 month and think
about the inclusion in GNOME 2.20.

Xavier.
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