On Thursday 05 March 2015 19:37:38 m...@jtalk.me wrote:
> > Also development of new plugin does not have to be from
> > scratch. Maybe for somebody existing plugins could be good
> > start point.
> 
> I’m sure they will not. I took a look at their source code
> earlier and it’s a
> 
> complete mess. There’s literally one huge function containing
> all the retrieval
> 
> logic. The worst code I’ve ever seen outside of students labs,
> really. I’ve spent
> 
> about a week on refactoring and just gave up, and I’m a lead
> C++ engineer, not
> 
> a student. The only purpose of those existing plugins is to
> know Kopete history
> 
> API better as it’s not well-documented as far as I know.
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Roman

I understand you. But do not forget that new plugin must support 
converting old history files to new format = users must not lose 
existing chat history. And existing plugin is probably only one 
place where is code for parsing that format... 

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.ro...@gmail.com

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