Re: How to add new protocol to Fire?

On Nov 20, 2004, at 12:13 AM, Jason Townsend wrote:
> On Nov 2, 2004, at 2:12 AM, Pawel Piecuch wrote:
>> I would like to add to Fire support for the most popular IM service  
>> in Poland called Gadu-Gadu. Could you give a few hits where to start  
>> from and what code of Fire I should take a look?
>
> There is a feature request open on adding this service:
>
> [ 715431 ] Support For GaduGadu Protocol
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? 
> func=detail&aid=715431&group_id=33772&atid=409173
>
> As to adding new services to Fire... there are a couple of ways to do  
> it. You could add a new FireBundle plug-in and simply copy one of the  
> other services and reimplement the *Service and  
> *CommunicationController classes. Most of the libraries we use also  
> need C callbacks and we put those in a *CFunctions.m class which calls  
> into the CommunicationController for that service.
>
> A couple of things to keep in mind... 1) we're doing a fairly  
> significant update to the architecture for Fire 1.2 (the feature  
> release after next). This is currently on the ServiceUpdate branch in  
> CVS. The tip of tree CVS is going to be Fire 1.1.
>
> Another idea which we have talked about at various points is to  
> implement compatability with Gaim plug-ins from within Fire. If we  
> implemented this it would allow us to pick up any services we  
> currently lack from Gaim (which I believe already supports GaduGadu).
>
> Let us know what direction you want to pursue and we can talk about  
> what is needed in more detail.

The idea of adding support for Gaim plug-ins is probably best done on  
the ServiceUpdate branch. If you want to do a GaduGadu service plug-in  
along the lines of the other Fire plug-ins, that could be done for 1.1  
or the ServiceUpdate. There have been some changes so if you do a 1.1  
version some changes would be needed to port to the 1.2 source base.

-Jason



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