Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread GrdScarabe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just about telepathy, I guess that you all have already seen that link ... but just in case it can be usefull ... or for the archives :p http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/spec.html GrdScarabe Youness Alaoui wrote: The problem with C++ is that it

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Nuno Agapito
Youness is right... Java it's not a good solution for this project... It's very slow, compile it kills me and the integration with non-java applications. speaks for it self! C++ has the problem of slow development for inexperienced programmers!!! For experienced, it's easy too go on... but

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Alberto Diaz
(WARNING: This is a long, boring mail :P) Well, maybe I am the only one who doesn't feel it like a totally postitive thing... First of all, aMSN is far from being stable on its own. Maybe it's better to polish what we currently have than coming up with a new core and adapting some pieces of

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread GrdScarabe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think that does not concern aMSN as whole, but just libmsn ... if I've followed everything :s GrdScarabe Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer wrote: What the hell is going on here? C# I think many people lost the track here, we're not talking about

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Harry Vennik
It has to work this time, and it can. If anyone just wants to code at some moment, there is amsn1 to work on! Op zondag 11 december 2005 23:18, schreef Youness Alaoui: You're basically talking about the 'normal' way to do things ? from my experience, this will never be done amongst amsn

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread GrdScarabe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Humm... it is not that simple ... Several studies have shown that it is totally possible to have an as good management and control of the development process as for profesional developments (I mean mostly proprietary) if the tasks are splitted in

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Harry Vennik
Op maandag 12 december 2005 18:10, schreef GrdScarabe: Humm... it is not that simple ... Several studies have shown that it is totally possible to have an as good management and control of the development process as for profesional developments (I mean mostly proprietary) if the tasks are

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread GrdScarabe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Vennik wrote: Op maandag 12 december 2005 18:10, schreef GrdScarabe: Humm... it is not that simple ... Several studies have shown that it is totally possible to have an as good management and control of the development process as for

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Youness Alaoui
Ok, ok stop that... first, java has great javadoc support where the doc is in your source, excelent, C#, noone wants M$ crap!!! and it's NOT multiplatform... mono is an implementation where they 'try to make it work'... I prefer to use the real thing, the same goes for java, that's why I

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Bruno Costa
On 12/12/05, Youness Alaoui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, ok stop that...first, java has great javadoc support where the doc is in your source,excelent, C#, noone wants M$ crap!!! and it's NOT multiplatform... mono isan implementation where they 'try to make it work'... I prefer to use the real

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Youness Alaoui
Hi, I've been getting more and more professional experience and I know how importnat it is for a project to be documented and correctly managed... I will be willing to manage it, in the same way I'm begining to slwoly do it for amsn1.. up until now, it was a 'free-for-all', or

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Nuno Agapito
I already tried! It seems easy! When we work with a bunch o languages, theres not a language hard to learn! But there is languages that are more readabel than others Write a API in java or C++ with no comments and say in what language it's more easy to understand what the API does, C++ or

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Le Philousophe - Phil
Hi, very good !! I think we need an organisation because IMO it's too messy !! You only have to look at this thread !! Everybody speaks and everybody deviates from the initial topic !! Some people who will never code wants to impose their point of view ! Enough I say one thing ! Discuss

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread GrdScarabe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 And personally, for what I saw since I am present on this list I think you do a pretty good job... So, I don't know if my vote is important but I support you ... Now, for the drawbacks (sorry but critics are positive :S ), ... from what I saw, I

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Youness Alaoui
no, that's because Tcl is procedurable and you looked at aMSN code which is a total mess... but look at other simple, modular code, you'll find it eaiser to read.. maybe try remote.tcl or chatwindow.tcl.. you'll see clear code if you go to msnp2p.tcl or gui/protocol.tcl.. trust me, you'll

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Boris Faure (billiob)
2005/12/12, Youness Alaoui [EMAIL PROTECTED]: if you go to msnp2p.tcl or gui/protocol.tcl.. trust me, you'll become suicidal :D Yes, i do ! My point of view : this looks very good and a bit the project of year. Like Jerome, i just learnt TCL by reading aMSN's code. I know a bit C, and can

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-12 Thread Le Philousophe - Phil
Le Monday 12 December 2005 20:18, Boris Faure (billiob) a écrit : 2005/12/12, Youness Alaoui [EMAIL PROTECTED]: if you go to msnp2p.tcl or gui/protocol.tcl.. trust me, you'll become suicidal :D Yes, i do ! My point of view : this looks very good and a bit the project of year. Like

[Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread burgerman
Hi guys, This will be a big email, and I hope it can generate a lot of talk. This is a proposal for the future of aMSN that benefits several parties : aMSN, Telepathy and Farsight. Now you all know Farsight, and you all know aMSN. You might not have heard of Telepathy. It's a project funded

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Thomas Martinsen
Wouldn't this be beyond the projects goal? I mean, the name is 'aMSN'. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, This will be a big email, and I hope it can generate a lot of talk. This is a proposal for the future of aMSN that benefits several parties : aMSN, Telepathy and Farsight. Now you all

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Le Philousophe - Phil
Very interesting !! a communication system !! We won't have to write it !! But what is bad with libgaim for Telepathy ?? A D-BUS extension shouldn't be too hard to do ! But if we want to rewrite all to made it saparated we should maybe switch to C++ or any other language not interpreted !!

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Karol Krizka
On Sunday 11 December 2005 11:55, Le Philousophe - Phil wrote: Very interesting !! a communication system !! We won't have to write it !! But what is bad with libgaim for Telepathy ?? A D-BUS extension shouldn't be too hard to do ! But if we want to rewrite all to made it saparated we should

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer
And what are we waiting for? Le 05-12-11 à 14:56, Karol Krizka a écrit :we need 0.95 out of the door first.

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Youness Alaoui
Hi burger, that's a very interesting idea, but I'm not too sure about it... I mean, it's really great and we should go with it, BUT I don't think it should be for 0.96 or even 1.0... I think it would be a whole new thing... I would suggest the protocol goes into C++ code... I've always been

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Youness Alaoui
waiting for me I think, I just can't do much today... I want to finish the TODO list I have (few things, change the timeout, test it), wait for list maintainers to give their 'ok' and tag 0.95, release, make all the packages... but I think, what's really slowing us down now is that the

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer
Le 05-12-11 à 14:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi guys, This will be a big email, and I hope it can generate a lot of talk. This is a proposal for the future of aMSN that benefits several parties : aMSN, Telepathy and Farsight. Now you all know Farsight, and you all know aMSN. You

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer
Yeah well this needs to be a serious project. We said this kind of propositions before on the mailling list but it was always..."later...when we will get time...to rewrite everything...blabla". It needs to be serious and have a real plan.I would work on that if there's a serious plan. Le 05-12-11

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Youness Alaoui
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 15:00:32 -0500, Karol Krizka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 11 December 2005 11:55, Le Philousophe - Phil wrote: Very interesting !! a communication system !! We won't have to write it !! But what is bad with libgaim for Telepathy ?? A D-BUS extension shouldn't be

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread burgerman
Hey dude, that's a very interesting idea, but I'm not too sure about it... I mean, it's really great and we should go with it, BUT I don't think it should be for 0.96 or even 1.0... I think it would be a whole new thing... I would suggest the protocol goes into C++ code... I've always

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Youness Alaoui
Yes, of course... and some people are already serious about that... Burger forked from us and made Farsight and he worked like a devil on this... Tom also forked from us and is working on his mega widgets... Some other people worked on the event system and made the new CL list working pretty

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread burgerman
Hi, You said it's compatible with OS X. D-Bus compatible with OS X? How does it work on OS X? Yes there are some patches to make d-bus work with macosx and it will be mainstream soon. The thing is, we don't want to use Gaim's MSN protocol as a connection manager for telepathy. Why? Just

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer
It answers my questions... So I supose I'll wait for a kind of start and then see how I can personally contribute for that project. Don't hesitate to use the Wiki to add documentation and describe all the plan. I'll try to reach developers at Adium too. As an Admin of aMSN, I aprove

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Harry Vennik
Okay, my first thought when reading Burgers' post was: Ooops, this seems to interfere quite much with the 'separate GUI and Protocol through events'-plans, but after some more reading, I have to admit this might be a good idea despite of that ;-) But: using C++ is really a bad plan. I have

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Karol Krizka
On Sunday 11 December 2005 12:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey dude, that's a very interesting idea, but I'm not too sure about it... I mean, it's really great and we should go with it, BUT I don't think it should be for 0.96 or even 1.0... I think it would be a whole new thing... I

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Harry Vennik
Let's watch out we're not going too fast! This thing needs quite some time of brainstorming before we will need the amsn2 module. There are a lot of ideas. Some might not blend, and should be dropped eventually. We will disappoint people by removing things they created if we do not decide

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Karol Krizka
One thing I don't undersand is how this will work in terms of programs needed tp be running. Will the core part be a totalyl seperate program from amsn? Like will it run it the background, getting input and output not caring what sends those messages? On Sunday 11 December 2005 11:44, [EMAIL

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer
That's why I said we need a serious project with serious doc and serious goals FIRST ;-)Le 05-12-11 à 16:11, Harry Vennik a écrit :Let's watch out we're not going too fast! This thing needs quite some time of brainstorming before we will need the  amsn2 module. There are a lot of ideas. Some

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Karol Krizka
On Sunday 11 December 2005 13:13, Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer wrote: That's why I said we need a serious project with serious doc and serious goals FIRST ;-) How about setting a time aside when everyone is free and discussing it on the IRC channel/MSN in realtime? Le 05-12-11 à 16:11, Harry Vennik a

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread GrdScarabe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I don't know if I am my word in this thread as I'm not really well versed in aMSN (not yet) ... but I think it is globally a good idea to use telepathy as framework for all the others protocols. But: using C++ is really a bad plan. I have never

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread GrdScarabe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Karol Krizka wrote: On Sunday 11 December 2005 13:13, Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer wrote: That's why I said we need a serious project with serious doc and serious goals FIRST ;-) How about setting a time aside when everyone is free and discussing it on

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer
My god:|Le 05-12-11 à 16:20, GrdScarabe a écrit : ça rocks des patates !

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Harry Vennik
Wasn't there some talk about a plugin using dbus some time ago? Op zondag 11 december 2005 22:07, schreef Karol Krizka: Me too, I could work on the dbus implementation in Tcl. Sounds like an interesting project. --- This SF.net email is

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer
Yeah, I just added it inside amsn-extras http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/amsn Le 05-12-11 à 16:31, Harry Vennik a écrit : Wasn't there some talk about a plugin using dbus some time ago? Op zondag 11 december 2005 22:07, schreef Karol Krizka: Me too, I could work on the dbus implementation in

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Joao Victor
Not a developer, just my 2 cents... i wouldn't go for C++. First because the language is so full of details and complicated/sofisticated stuff, and second because it'll make it harder to make a library that doesn't break ABI, since C++ has some ABI breakage problems (see:

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Thomas Martinsen
C is a real good lowlevel language. So is Perl if you need highlevel stuff :) Joao Victor wrote: Not a developer, just my 2 cents... i wouldn't go for C++. First because the language is so full of details and complicated/sofisticated stuff, and second because it'll make it harder to make a

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Harry Vennik
Op zondag 11 december 2005 22:42, schreef Joao Victor: I think Java is cool; runs on it all, has the C++ syntax but much more simplified, no need to worry about garbage collection, has lots of developers, and so it goes. Java has C++ syntax??? Fortunately not! I know, there are a lot of

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Youness Alaoui
You're basically talking about the 'normal' way to do things ? from my experience, this will never be done amongst amsn devels :p but we could give it a try... I'm willing to help on the doc for that thing... KaKaRoTo On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 16:11:37 -0500, Harry Vennik [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Youness Alaoui
ll translatin would be 'it rocks potatoes'... ahh, french expressions... lol On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 16:25:46 -0500, Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My god :| Le 05-12-11 à 16:20, GrdScarabe a écrit : ça rocks des patates ! -- KaKaRoTo

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Youness Alaoui
yes, but C++ is also a powerful language, if you know how to use it of course.. if not, then we're in deep shit... Java is also great, I really love java, only problem is I do not want amsn to depend on a JRE... also, java doesn't integrate well with other code... (which means, C++ code can

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Karol Krizka
On Sunday 11 December 2005 14:22, Youness Alaoui wrote: ll translatin would be 'it rocks potatoes'... ahh, french expressions... lol According to Altavista's babelfish it is: that rock'n'rolls of potatos! :P On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 16:25:46 -0500, Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Youness Alaoui
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:12:06 -0500, Harry Vennik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op zondag 11 december 2005 22:42, schreef Joao Victor: I think Java is cool; runs on it all, has the C++ syntax but much more simplified, no need to worry about garbage collection, has lots of developers, and so it

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer
Le 05-12-11 à 17:31, Youness Alaoui a écrit : think about one thing... who wants to learn Objective-C ? Me ;-)That's the primary language for a native-application on Mac OS X, with CocoaBut I totally understand why we wouldn't us that on a multiplatform project ;-)I personally don't.. I remember I

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Joao Victor
2005/12/11, Youness Alaoui [EMAIL PROTECTED]: yes, but C++ is also a powerful language, if you know how to use it of course.. if not, then we're in deep shit... Java is also great, I really love java, only problem is I do not want amsn to depend on a JRE... Yes... but oh well, right now Amsn

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Alberto Diaz
(WARNING: This is a long, boring mail :P) Well, maybe I am the only one who doesn't feel it like a totally postitive thing... First of all, aMSN is far from being stable on its own. Maybe it's better to polish what we currently have than coming up with a new core and adapting some pieces of

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Thomas Martinsen
Well, I'm not a developer so I dunno if I count. :-P Anyways, I feel it would be wrong to just start with all this now. Isn't this project a MSN client? Would feel wrong to me heh :) Alberto Diaz wrote: (WARNING: This is a long, boring mail :P) Well, maybe I am the only one who doesn't feel it

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Youness Alaoui
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:36:53 -0500, Joao Victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2005/12/11, Youness Alaoui [EMAIL PROTECTED]: yes, but C++ is also a powerful language, if you know how to use it of course.. if not, then we're in deep shit... Java is also great, I really love java, only problem is I do

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Joao Victor
2005/12/11, Youness Alaoui [EMAIL PROTECTED]: no, tcl/tk is easy to install for linux, there are rpms everywhere and most systems already have it.. with a JRE, you need to install it manually, not always easy, because it's a 'non-open-source' product... for windows, we can bundle tcl/tk in a

[Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future, round 2

2005-12-11 Thread burgerman
Here is another thread about the subject. * PLEASE DON'T REPLY TO THIS THREAD UNLESS IT IS RELEVANT. I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT C++ vs JAVA HERE! LET US KEEP IT CLEAN OTHERWISE IT IS USELESS TO HAVE A THREAD. IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING RELATED BUT NOT DIRECTLY RELATED START A NEW THREAD * So

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread Youness Alaoui
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 19:15:54 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, Hi, thanks for answering, it covered most of the things I wanted to say... What would amsn gain from the porting to Telepathy? Lots of protocols. We already have MSN, the most complete out there I think (in terms of

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future, round 2

2005-12-11 Thread Youness Alaoui
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 19:34:53 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is another thread about the subject. perfect * PLEASE DON'T REPLY TO THIS THREAD UNLESS IT IS RELEVANT. I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT C++ vs JAVA HERE! LET US KEEP IT CLEAN OTHERWISE IT IS USELESS TO HAVE A THREAD. IF YOU

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future, round 2

2005-12-11 Thread Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer
As I said, I'm very interested in that project. I dunno how and where I will be implicated but count me as a member :PLe 05-12-11 à 20:27, Youness Alaoui a écrit : which makes it into 6 teams... Here are the current assignments : 1 - everyone 2 - Youness 3 - Karol 4 - ? 5 - Youness 6 - Tom Anyone

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future, round 2

2005-12-11 Thread Nuno Agapito
Well, if you rewrite the protocol in C or C++, I would like to help! It's always two more hands coding AgapitoOn 12/12/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Here is another thread about the subject. *PLEASE DON'T REPLY TO THIS THREAD UNLESS IT IS RELEVANT. I DON'T WANT TOHEAR

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future, round 2

2005-12-11 Thread GrdScarabe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nuno Agapito wrote: Well, if you rewrite the protocol in C or C++, I would like to help! It's always two more hands coding Agapito +1 ... even if it is another programing language program ... The thing is I am totally new and even if I

Re: [Amsn-devel] Proposal for aMSN's future

2005-12-11 Thread GrdScarabe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I personally don't care about any other protocol except Jabber. This would bring Jabber. Also, it would bring instant Farsight support to aMSN. same here, and also, from what I understood we would only use telepathy for the new system