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237 | 1 Hello, your good friend EW here with a nice little notice that I'm sure will |
2 affect the ten of you who actually read this. | |
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4 I'm going to start trying to get gaim to use Oscar through libfaim. As far as I | |
5 can tell, the only thing it used to be able to do is sign on and receive IMs. I | |
6 updated libfaim to what's currently in the libfaim CVS on sourceforge. As of | |
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7 right now, I've been able to implement most of the features libfaim offers. |
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9 I'm going to try to make as few modifications as possible to the libfaim code. | |
10 The only two modifications I'll probably ever make to it are 1) to make my life | |
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11 easier or 2) to fix a compilation error. That means that what you're getting |
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12 when you enable oscar is basically faimtest (the very instructional program |
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13 included with the libfaim source on sourceforge) with the Gaim GTK front-end. |
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14 So far the changes to libfaim that I've made are: |
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15 - remove mkbuildinfo.sh and put the #defines it creates into Makefile.am |
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16 - check for socklen_t for Solaris people (in aim_ft.c) |
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18 And finally, a word of warning. Gaim/Faim is VERY buggy. Please, don't use this |
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19 for anything other than laughs right now. Hopefully we'll get it working better |
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22 I think I'm ready to start dealing with bugs being reported against it now |
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23 though. If you're going to report a bug, please check first that a) you're using |
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24 the to-the-second absolute latest CVS version, b) it's not in the unsupported |
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25 features/known issues lists below, c) someone hasn't already reported the bug on |
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26 sourceforge (please check BOTH the open and closed bugs), and finally d) that |
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27 you can reproduce it. |
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29 Also, please *don't* IM me about a bug, as I have a tendency to forget things |
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30 like that. Reporting it on sourceforge is a much better way of reporting bugs, |
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31 because then other people can see that the bug is already known, and it's harder |
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32 for me to forget. |
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34 CURRENTLY SUPPORTED FEATURES |
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35 ============================ |
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36 Signing on |
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37 Receiving IMs |
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39 Being idle |
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40 Being away/coming back |
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41 Setting your info |
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42 Getting users' info |
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43 Getting users' away messages |
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44 Setting your dir info |
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45 Warning users/getting warned |
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47 - joining rooms |
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48 - leaving rooms |
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49 - talking |
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50 - inviting someone |
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51 - getting invited |
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52 - creating rooms (needed to join empty rooms) |
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53 - refreshing the chatlist in the preferences dialog |
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54 Direct IM (aka IM Image, for sounds and pictures) |
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56 CURRENTLY UNSUPPORTED FEATURES |
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58 Telling the server who's on your permit/deny lists |
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60 - whispering (this will never happen) |
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61 Getting dir info |
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62 Changing your password |
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63 File Transfer (Get/Send) |
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64 Voice Chat |
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65 Buddy Icon |
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70 while, evidently). So if you want to "whisper" to someone, just IM them. |
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73 in libfaim is untested and it's causing way too many problems. |
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76 because there is any difference in the protocols as far as the actual transfer |
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77 is concerned. The only difference is what has been implemented and what hasn't |
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91 out what needs to be fixed, do that sort of thing. :) (Fixing the things listed |
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92 in KNOWN ISSUES above, or any other bugs you happen to find, is a very good use |
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93 of your time.) (You didn't hear that from me.) |