Re: Help wanted: simple tasks

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 07:24:01PM +0000, Stéphane Bisinger wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I have thought about a couple of tasks that would be helpful and that
> do not require any particular skill in programming. Here they are:
>  - Make a list of libraries bundled with centericq, their version
> number and chek if there are newer versions of them
>  - Search the web for security issues with centericq, especially the
> unresolved ones, so that we may fix them. It would also be interesting
> to know which libraries have had a lot of issues, so we could
> understand what could need some modernization.
>  - Check every switch in the configure scripts to see if they work.
> This is a really big job (there are just too many combinations of
> them), but with coordination everybody can do a piece of it.
> 
> These tasks don't require any particular programming knowledge, you'll
> just have to open some .c or .cc file to see the version number (if
> not specified somewhere else) and google a lot. Any help would be
> appreciated!

Since I haven't had any luck to build from the git-repository on any
on my machines (debian stable and openbsd 4.0), so I tried to do some
research instead :-)

This is what I came up with:

library: firetalk
version in centerim: 0.1.0-pre20
current status: not developed any more?
old hompage: http://www.penguinhosting.net/~ian/firetalk/
http://www.penguinhosting.net/~ian/ redirects to:
http://firestuff.org/wordpress/
that page doesn't mention firetalk at all...

library: libgadu
version in centerim: 20040117
current status: still beeing developed
homepage: http://toxygen.net/libgadu/
The webpage is in polish, and I'm not so fluent in polish ;-)

library: libicq2000
version in centerim: 0.3.2 according to the readme
current status: 0.3.2 released 2002-07-21, dead?, last change to CVS made in 2004.
homepage: http://libicq2000.sourceforge.net

library: libjabber
version in centerim: ?
current status: ?
Several files contains the text:" copyright (c) 1998-1999 The jabber team http://jabber.org".

library: libmsn
version in centerim:
current version: 3.2
current status: activly beeing developed
homepage: http://libmsn.bdash.net.nz/
The files AUTHORS, COPYING, Changelog, INSTALL, NEWS, README are all
empty =>
this is bad since all files should be imported to the centerim
repository imho

library: libyahoo2
version in centerim: ?
current version: 0.7.5
current status: dead, latest change in CVS 5 months ago
homepage: http://libyahoo2.sourceforge.net/ (seems not to have been
updated for quite a while)
The homepage states:
"libyahoo2 is derivative of the yahoo module from gaim."
"This library also uses code from other libraries, namely:
Portions from libfaim copyright 1998, 1999 Adam Fritzler <afritz AT
auk.cx>
Portions of Sylpheed copyright 2000-2002 Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y AT
kcn.ne.jp>"



regards
Håkan
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