Re: CVS access or Project Progress

----- Original Message from: Sascha Vogt <[email protected]>
To: CenterICQ List <cicq-xGejAJT2w6wWP6gT/[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, 15 February, 2007 7:46:10 PM
Subject: Re: [cicq] CVS access or Project Progress

>That would be really really great :) It bothers me, that the only app on 
>my server, which is not UTF-8 compliant is centericq. Otherwise I would 
>have switched to UTF-8 a long time ago.

This is something that is bothering almost every centericq user!

>Another thing that is a problem: with screen, ssh and centericq, the 
>available UTF-8 version seems not to work correctly. I've tried Debian's 
>centericq-utf8.

That utf8 version does only compile centericq with ncursesw, the wide-character version of ncurses. This mean that utf8 character are visually correct, but the centericq code does not treat them as multi-byte characters, so the display messes up. for example when you insert an accented character, the cursors stays one position forward.

>> As a version control system I want to use git. I already have imported
>> the current cvs repository into git and also have my current changes
>> in there.
>OK, something new to learn, but it's always good to learn new things ;)

Actually it's not hard, maybe when we'll have a wiki I'll be writing a very quick "getting started with git" page, showing the basic command we'll need.

>OK, now something about myself :)
>I would like to help if I can. I am a Java developer, so I think I'm 
>able to READ the code, but writing could be some problem, as I'm not 
>very familiar to release allocated memory and use pointers ;)

Well just start by testing and reading, if you want to start messing with pointers and things like that (which you'll have to do, probably, if you're going to write code) I strongly suggest that you pick a good book about C/C++ to have a full understanding of the issues. Pointers are great, but from a great power comes a great danger... Thinking in C++ is a good resource, especially because you can have it online for free, so it's a good reference.

>What I could do would be, writing documentation and testing (mainly 
>UTF-8 support, Debian-packaging, usage within screen, ...). And maybe I 
>could help with support.

Well you could help creating packages for Debian and Debian-likes, this should not be too difficult and neither time consuming. Also, Julien Lemoine (the Debian mantainer) is a nice guy who you can talk to about that.

>I would also like to point out another message in this thread. It was 
>about using lib-gaim as base. This should be considered and thought of 
>very thoroughly. It has some notable advantages: Very well maintained, 
>fast and active development of the libraries and so on. Just think about 
>it.

Quite honestly I agree. We should give it a try. After all writing hooks for those libraries should not be so difficult... Maybe after utf8 support I'll try to play with this!





		
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