Em qui 14 jul 2011, Michael Zanetti escreveu:
> On Thursday, July 07, 2011 12:50:08 Lamarque Vieira Souza wrote:
> > Em Thursday 07 July 2011, Raphael Kubo da Costa escreveu:
> > > Michal Zajac <michal.za...@gmail.com> writes:
> > > > Yes, it is exactly as Raphael said, after the build is finished
> > > > pkgkde-symbolshelper checks for new or removed symbols and this one
> > > > popped out. If the symbol is for ex. not public we just remove it
> > > > without doing anything but from what I saw and confirmed with thiago
> > > > this one is public and can't be removed without any binary
> > > > compatibility problems.
> > >
> > > I remember we discussed not keeping BC in libkopete a few months ago,
> > > but no official decision was made.
> > >
> > > We need to either add that symbol back or officially decide we will not
> > > keep BC and raise the soversion of libkopete.
> > >
> > > For now I think we could just add the symbol back and deprecate
> > > it. Lamarque, what do you think?
> >
> > I think we should make libkopete private. Kopete is dying, almost nobody
> >
> > cares about it anymore, only me is adding new features to it and in the
> > transition to KDE 5 I really doubt anyone will step up to port it to Qt
> > 5. There is no reason to incentivize anyone to use libkopete, so there
> > is no reason for it to be public. I will restore the symbol and declare
> > it deprecated. I am really thinking in abandon Kopete. Too much trouble
> > for almost nothing.
>
> Following the telepathy mailing lists I know that telepathy devs have no
> intentions to extend the framework to support plugins other than protocols.
> This makes for example end-to-end encryption (like OTR and GPG plugins)
> impossible to be added to the framework but rather to each application
> again. Having such plugins in the application layer again somehow kills
> the scope of such a framework as telepathy.
>
> Until this situation changes I know that A LOT of people would cry really
> loud if kopete would vanish away. Keep that in mind before dropping it ;)
I am not going to drop it, at least not until KDE 5 appears. I am just
not commiting any patches to kopete's repository. I am keeping the patches
only to myself.
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Lamarque V. Souza
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