Hi,

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Patrick Sung wrote:
> The biggest problem is to have everyone agree on using the same 
> language.  Then after the language settled we have to define the API as 
> well.  This could take a long time but we could all benefit from it if 
> it can really happen.

Actually this is not such a big problem, because under Unix, everyone can 
load libraries written in C and only C++ programs can read C++ libraries.

There are 3 free (as in speech) implementations of the v7 protocol that I 
know of: ickle (aka libicq2000), licq and GnomeICU.. The first 2 are in 
C++ and the 3rd in is C, so using our code is the only possible 
solution... And I believe that as soon as I have file transfer in, we will 
be the most complete impletementation and the only complete v8 
implementation.

Then, I have tried to make our code as clean as possible, but I have no
interest in making it into a separate library, I just dont see what doing
it would give us that we dont already have or do. I understand that ickle
and licq already have their own implementations and are probably not
interested in dumping their work. Such a library would mainly be useful
for ppl who have multi-protocol apps (such as Gaim and Everybuddy). I know
that at least gaim is still using the old protocol for icq.

-- 
Olivier Crete
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Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. -- Henry Spencer


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