Hi, at first I want to introduce my first real c++ project: Openfire-Qt [0] it's basically a Qt API for the Openfire-C library (see [1])
Openfire-C is a library which provides access to the xfire network [2] as far as I know it's the only actively maintained xfire library out there (note: there is a pidgin plugin called gfire: [3], [4]. it includes it's own protocol handling code so I won't count that) in case you're wondering why I wrote this library: I was looking for xfire support inside kopete. trying to add support 'the hackish way' I found it's not very clean to combine a c library which uses callbacks inside a c++/Qt application that was the point where I started to write an abstraction layer which provides access to Openfire-C's functions by using c++ and Qt. as I already stated this library is my first real c++/Qt project (I did a small 100 lines of code project before -> that means I'm not very experienced) nevertheless I tried to make the library as good as possible. my main problem at the moment is that I don't have a mentor. at the beginning skyphyr (Alan) helped me out a lot (thanks again!) - but he's been busy the last few weeks and he will be busy for the next few weeks/months I would need two things right now: a) I would need a mentor. there are places in my library where I can't use a d-pointer for example. it's not easy to explain why - but having a mentor which would at least know tiny bits of my code (so I don't have to explain everything multiple times) would be great as it makes development easier and more productive (the results are much better) b) I would need someone who could review my current code. see the gitorious project page: [0]. Albert (TSDgeos) already did a quick (very quick ;)) review of my library -> I fixed all problems he found (oh and thanks again to him for his nice support) if you want to try out my library: a minimal sample client (command-line based) is included in the 'test' directory. if you have an xfire account you can log in there and receive messages. note: this "client" is very hackish... I just need it to test my code - it's aim is to make it easier to test my code, not to provide a usable client ;) now... I really hope at least one of you can help me, so kopete will be able to support one more protocol. maybe someone out there would also volunteer to write the kopete protocol plugin which will then use my library? Regards, Martin [0] http://gitorious.org/openfire-qt [1] http://code.google.com/p/openfire-c/ [2] http://www.xfire.com/ [3] http://gfireproject.org/ [4] http://my-trac.assembla.com/gfire/ _______________________________________________ kopete-devel mailing list kopete-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel
