Re: Thoughs about communication

[Debarshi Ray <rishi is lostca se>]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 12:07:13AM +0100, Alexandre Franke wrote:
> Agreed. I thought one of the arguments in favour of keeping Telepathy
> around was the support for some ???uncommon??? protocols that are not
> really supported elsewhere though? [0]
>
> [snip]
>
> [0] One possible answer would maybe be that those networks don't have
> the critical mass required for us to spend our rare workforce on and
> that we expect third party (libpurple-based?) clients to take care of
> that market.

Among the free software Telepathy connection managers, the XMPP
implementation was the only one that was really very good. For the
more uncommon protocols, Telepathy already depends on libpurple via
telepathy-haze. Sometimes, these days, directly using libpurple via
pidgin is a much better option than going via Telepathy.

Guess why Pidgin showed up in RHEL 7.3. ;)