Re: [gentoo-user] Skype users

2016-10-13 Thread Raymond Jennings
Just of note, the classic version seems to support cloud based chats now. There's been some conversions going on on the skype servers, and I reported a couple of bugs to microsoft which appear to have been recently fixed. On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Raymond Jennings

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype users

2016-10-11 Thread Raymond Jennings
My guess is that eventually it will be. Microsoft tends to be fond of turfing old versions of its software *cough*windows10*cough* As the mantainer of a package with no patchable source code provided I'll have little choice but to reflect the upstream reality as clearly as possible. What I

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype users

2016-10-05 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 10/04/2016 02:12 PM, Raymond Jennings wrote: > Please be advised that skype has been split off into two packages > > * skype remains for the "classic" version of skype > * skypeforlinux is the new package name for microsoft's alpha version > > There were some version number snarls and it was

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype users

2016-10-05 Thread Raymond Jennings
As far as I know the alpha skype is a cheap clone of the web version (and the only version that supports cloud chats)...and I don't think it uses the .Skype database. I also tested it, and it seems to work. On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 11:49 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Tuesday,

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype users

2016-10-05 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, October 04, 2016 11:39:44 PM Raymond Jennings wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 10:51 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Tuesday, October 04, 2016 02:12:12 PM Raymond Jennings wrote: > > > Please be advised that skype has been split off into two packages > > > > > > *

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype users

2016-10-05 Thread Raymond Jennings
On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 10:51 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Tuesday, October 04, 2016 02:12:12 PM Raymond Jennings wrote: > > Please be advised that skype has been split off into two packages > > > > * skype remains for the "classic" version of skype > > * skypeforlinux is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype users

2016-10-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, October 04, 2016 02:12:12 PM Raymond Jennings wrote: > Please be advised that skype has been split off into two packages > > * skype remains for the "classic" version of skype > * skypeforlinux is the new package name for microsoft's alpha version > > There were some version number

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype users

2016-10-04 Thread Andy Mender
I am rather thankful that you did this and at the same time surprised Microsoft decided to work on a dedicated Skype client for Linux. Since the GNU/Linux community is responsive, we might make considerable contribution to troubleshooting the client. I will probably give it a go to see how it

[gentoo-user] Skype users

2016-10-04 Thread Raymond Jennings
Please be advised that skype has been split off into two packages * skype remains for the "classic" version of skype * skypeforlinux is the new package name for microsoft's alpha version There were some version number snarls and it was decided that a split would be cleaner. Blame microsoft for