Re: Rendezvous and little stuff

On 17/06/2004, at 20:37, Ernest Phillips wrote:

> We have Rendezvous support, hmm? ^^ Very nice, but a bit of an 
> issue... I can see users on iChat fine, but they cannot see me. Just 
> an incomplete implementation, or?

The rendezvous support is rather new, and depending on when you checked 
it out of CVS it may be in a rather incomplete state.  It appears that 
anonymous CVS does have the latest version of the code, so it may just 
be a bug in my code :-)  Over the next few days I am going to look at 
moving from my custom implementation to Andrew Wellington's libezv for 
the Rendezvous support so it is quite likely that this will fix your 
problem.

>  One thing I'd really appreciate is the ability to make a Rendezvous 
> group, rather than have those buddies in the *** Default Group ***.

Agreed.

> When these buddies sign off their names remain on the list, but as 
> offline... do you plan to keep it this way? A bit less than ideal, I 
> think, but certainly not a deal-breaker. ^^ Thanks for the great work, 
> all of you! ^^

It's definitely not desirable, but simply removing the buddy from the 
list when they go offline is also less than ideal.  This would make it 
impossible to permanently customize things such as their displayed 
name, notifications, and similar items.  What is really needed is the 
ability to mark a buddy as being "transient", meaning that it shouldn't 
be saved, but make it possible to change these transient buddies into 
persistent ones should the user desire.

On the whole, Rendezvous support is still a little shaky but it should 
improve over the coming days.

Cheers for the feedback,

Mark Rowe