Re: EB-lite alpha-6 is out

On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Meredydd Luff wrote:

>  After the disaster that was alpha-5, I somewhat shamefully present alpha-6 
> for your downloading pleasure. It includes a bunch of Yahoo fixes, and an 
> asynchronous socket connection implementation. Oh yes, and SOCKS-5 proxy 
> support (and more) is just around the corner! 

Thanks for the new version, Meredydd. One thing I would like to be able to do
is build the yahoo plugin using the current libyahoo2, but it's nontrivial to
actually do. If I use the current headers, I get many compilation problems in
yahoo.c.
I'm trying to find a patch for yahoo.c that allows it to work with the newer
libraries, but wouldn't mind a few pointers. It would probably help if I knew
what version of libyahoo2 that Everybuddy was based on...
Actually, I just got it to compile with the latest libyahoo2 code, and it
compiles, as long as I keep the everybuddy verion of yahoo_util.h and
yahoo_util.c. I'll turn this into a patch which separates the libyahoo2 code,
and allows it to be replaced. The problem is that I will need to find a fix
for the duplicated yahoo_util code, or I will have linking problems when
statically linking the yahoo plugin.

Incidentally, libyahoo2 cvs is starting to support web cams and yahoo chat
rooms, and I am wondering if there is any abstraction we could use for adding
support for these features to eb-lite. I suspect this is the type of issue that
should be brought up on IRC.

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