I'd agree on this having taken a quick look at it, I can't see a useful function for this app any more.
Jonathan On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 at 22:15, Heiko Becker <heiko.bec...@kde.org> wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted to keep kopete at least buildable against recent version of its > dependencies by removing some obsolete parts. But it occured to me that if > I were to continue with that, there wouldn't be much left. It suffers from > the same problems with dead or (at least dying) protocols I wrote down for > ktp [1], so I'll just add some relevant things affecting kopete: > > - Contrary to ktp it doesn't use pidgin for ICQ/AIM, but a custom > implementation, the result is the same. AIM ceased to exist and ICQ > changed > its protocol (and thus kopete silently fails to with the latter). > - XMPP/Jabber allows to connect, but joining a room crashes kopete, which > matches a bug report from 2019 [2] > - winpopup was apparently discontinued after Windows XP > - qq: I'm hesistant to give them my phone number to manually register an > account (the link behind the register button times out). Pidgin removed > support for this in 2011, which is roughly the same time a non-porting > commit touched the code and there is a bug report that it indeed doesn't > work [3] > > I didn't have/find an instance to test Bonjour and my distro doesn't > provide a package for libmeanwhile, so no testing of these. > > In addition, it has a very long list of (partly very old) bugs [4] (no > idea > how many, bugzilla stops after 500), and my impression from testing a few > is that many of them are easily reproduceably today. > > As much as I used kopete for chatting back in the day, I seriously think > it's broken enough to stop shipping it with Gear, if nobody surprisingly > steps up and does at least some basic maintenance. > > If you know anybody who's still around and cares for kopete, please feel > free to bring this mail to their attention. > > Regards, > Heiko > > [1] https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/release-team/2023-June/013080.html > [2] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412228 > [3] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460744 > [4] > > https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=CONFIRMED&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&list_id=2429758&order=changeddate%20DESC%2Cbug_status%2Cpriority%2Cassigned_to%2Cbug_id&product=kopete&query_format=advanced >
