Re: multiple profiles for one account

For starters, I think it would be great if someone not already 
intimately familiar with the Yahoo protocol would care to explain to 
the rest of us exactly what a "profile" *is*... It's mentioned a couple 
of times in the libyahoo2 headers, but I have no real clue what it is. 
The comment "if you don't know what this is about, you don't want to 
use this function" is informative, and directed me correctly when I 
wrote the initial iteration of that code, but it's not all that helpful 
for understanding... <g>

Meredydd

On Monday 20 September 2004 22:23, A. Craig West wrote:
> I am currently trying to add support for Yahoo's multiple profiles to
> eb-lite, but there are a number of issues that are making it
> complicated. For one thing, I have to make it work properly in
> libyahoo2, but that has been on my todo list for a while, anyways. It
> would help if I knew if any other protocols we support have anything
> like Yahoo's multiple profiles. If they do, I should probably go for
> a more generalized solution, instead of a yahoo-specific hack.
> For multiple profiles to work as intended, there needs to be some way
> to keep track of which profile any particular buddy knows about, or
> at least which profile is the preferred one to use when talking to
> any particular buddy. I don't see any way to do that with the current
> architecture, though... If anybody has any ideas on how this should
> work, I am very interested in hearing them...