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List:       kopete-devel
Subject:    Re: [Kopete-devel] Compiling kopete with gcc3.1
From:       Nick Betcher <nbetcher () usinternet ! com>
Date:       2002-05-14 23:50:08
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We're not going to fork kxengine until it has support for all features of ICQ 
v8.

On Tuesday 14 May 2002 04:04 pm, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 May 2002 23:34, Hendrik vom Lehn wrote:
> > Kopete uses the kxicq engine. The icq plugin arranges only between the
> > kxicq-engine and the UI.
> > It is easier to reuse the engine of an other icq-client instead of
> > writing an own one.
>
> That's not an excuse.
>
> In my opinion we have two options here:
>
> 1. Leave the code in kde cvs for easier maintainability from our part and
> because the user doesn't need to download and install a separate library.
> _HOWEVER_, that also means we take responsibility for the code in the
> library. Which means we forward bug reports and patches to Herwin Jan
> Steehouwer (the kxengine author) and maybe apply them in the mean time to
> Kopete CVS. At the very least we should not put off our responsibilities to
> our users regarding the code.
>
> 2. We don't want to take this responsibility and add a configure check for
> an external kxengine and remove kxengine from kde cvs.
>
> I know that Herwin Jan is very responsive to the reports we send him, so I
> definitely vote for the user convenience offered by #1. The extra work for
> us is quite minimal and we can also reconsider at a later stage.
>
> But in Jeremy's particular case I'm quite confident the code in CVS is
> already ok for GCC 3.1, because the offending code in both HEAD and the KMM
> branch is sane.
>
> Martijn
>
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