Chatkit was indeed a separate short lived project. Essentially it started off with a lot of planning, and then some people wanted to depend on pre-existing libraries. Not a lot of real work was done, which is why the project eventually stopped.
Chris On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 5:32 PM, BJ Homer <[email protected]> wrote: > </lurk> > While we're talking about crazy ideas, I know there was a project called > ChatKit a while ago. As I understood it, it was essentially going to > implement the various IM protocols in Obj-C and provide a simple Obj-C API > for them. (I believe Adium developers were involved in it, so please correct > me if I'm wrong.) If that's the case… well, would anyone have interest in > resurrecting that project? If libpurple is the dependency dependency that > prohibits inclusion in the Mac App Store, is it worth investigating > replacing it? > I acknowledge that this wouldn't be a quick solution; petitioning Apple to > make the App Store licensing terms GPL-compatible in the meantime is not a > bad option. But if that doesn't happen… well, how badly do people want Adium > to be on the Mac App Store? If a framework like ChatKit were the only > option, is there enough interest in the Mac App Store to explore that option > again? > I'd be willing to help. I've been needing a good open source project to work > on for a while. > -BJ > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Zachary West <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 18:08, Christopher Forsythe <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Stephen Holt <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > >>> > On Jan 11, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Christopher Forsythe wrote: >>> > >>> >> Can any of the libraries be taken out of adium in order to reduce this >>> >> number? >>> > >>> > >>> > libglib is the big one, and no - libpurple depends on libglib. >>> > >>> > >>> >>> That's fine, I'd just need to start preparing to find all of these >>> people and making a list. >>> >>> Do we know what kind of permission we'd need to ask for? Is something >>> like this adequate? "hey, we want make adium easier to download for >>> users, and we have to do x, y, and z to do that. We need your >>> permission in order to do that. Is it ok?" >>> >>> Is the intention to put Adium in the store for free or for sale? >>> >> >> This isn't going to happen, there's a huge amount of people who have >> contributed to the projects. If even only one of them isn't contactable or >> reachable it's gone. We basically need to relicense a core set of GPL >> libraries and that isn't going to happen. >> It would be free. >> I'm going to write a blogpost and hopefully have our users spam Apple with >> complaints. Not much more we can do. >> Zac >
