Olivier Crete wrote: >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. > The problem is not with the code, but with the people who do the coding. If no one is going to sacrifice their language of choice then we will never able to make it, and that *is* the problem.
> >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. > Yes, I do admit now that GnomeICU is the most updated icq clone in terms of protocol support (for V8). :) > >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. > _______________________________________________ Licq-main mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/licq-main
