On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 01:56:31PM +0100, Alberto Garcia wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 06:52:58PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > It's just that each time I mention I'm using this, people tell me > > taht it's experimental, and probably a bug in purple-matrix. But > > it's at least not always clear to me where the bugs are, and there > > seem to be various problems with the homeserver (synapse) too. > > I don't know, I think I would understand you better if I had a list of > specific problems that make this software unsuitable for release. > > I've been using it daily for months as my primary Matrix client on > my desktop computer, and the only issues I found are occasional > disconnects (and I'm not even sure that it's not a server problem).
I currently have a connection to my homeserver on 2 devices, and pidgin isn't receive any messages, but riot is. I have this problem every few days. And like I said, it's not clear where the problem is. It looks I can actually send things when in that state, and other people receive it, I just don't receive anything back. And people generally blame purple-matrix for that if I tell I'm using that. Sometimes the connection really breaks, and then it reconnects and works (or crashes). > > Like I said, if you think that you can support this version for the > > next 3 years, I have no problem with it. But I wouldn't add it to a > > stable release yet in it's current state. > > I plan to keep using this plugin for the foreseeable time. But do you think you'll still use this version, or will you upgrade the version you're running when there is a new upstream version? > If this goes to stretch then it will be a simple Matrix client with > few dependencies and limited functionality, but otherwise stable > enough for everyday use. > > Maybe I'm missing something, what is the scenario that you are worried > about? So some of my worries: - It crashes for me a few times a week. - There seem to be various issues that don't make it behave properly. - Maybe next year some of those issues have been fixed in purple-matrix, it's recommended to use it for the desktop, but then people install the version from Debian stable and get a crappy version. - I don't know if it's still going to be compatible next year. Kurt
