Is there any reason we need everybuddy or ayttm in
main when we have Gaim and Kopete?

--- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> everybuddy in it's current state isn't really ben
> maintained at current.
> The developers are off essentially rewriting the
> source from scratch.
> It's really buggy and we've been forced to release
> CVS versions just to
> fix the seriousness of the bugs.
> 
> On December 20th, one of the everybuddy developers
> forked their CVS off
> to start ayttm.  They've cleaned up the code a lot,
> fixed a number of
> bugs.  Their primary goal is to make ayttm a simple,
> easy to use
> universal client, that is stable.
> 
> I think we should drop everybuddy from main into
> contrib.  It's just way
> to buggy for main.  Replacing it in main would be
> ayttm.  ayttm can use
> everybuddy contact and account lists and with some
> modification its
> preferences files.  So most users can migrate over
> to it relatively
> painlessly.
> 
> I've built an ayttm package which we can use:
>
http://mirror.brain.org/linux/breser/i586/9.0/SRPMS/ayttm-0.2.1-3brs.src.rpm
> 
> Details on the ayttm project can be found at:
> http://www.nongnu.org/ayttm/
> 
> -- 
> Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> http://ben.reser.org
> 
> "America does not go abroad in search of monsters to
> destroy. She is
> the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of
> all. She is the
> champion only of her own." -- John Quincy Adams,
> July 4th, 1821
> 

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