Re: Google Hangouts support

[Matthew Hodgson <matthew matrix org>]

> On 18 Oct 2017, at 16:53, Adrian Perez de Castro <aperez igalia com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 14:21:34 +0100, Simon McVittie <smcv collabora com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 at 11:42:40 +0300, pecisk gmail com wrote:
> > > Is there any interest/desire to see Google Hangouts support in Empathy and
> > > Telepathy? Or as Telepathy is on it's way out it is no interest?
> >
> > Telepathy can't have Google Hangouts support unless someone
> > reverse-engineers the protocol (which is closed/proprietary, if I
> > understand correctly) well enough to write a "connection manager"
> > (protocol backend) for it. The design of Telepathy means that Empathy
> > would immediately get basic support for any protocol where a connection
> > manager exists; but writing that connection manager is a significant
> > amount of work.
>
> There's the Telepathy-Hangups connection manager:
>
>    https://github.com/davidedmundson/telepathy-hangups
>
> It hasn't received updates for years, but provided that it's just an adaptor
> for Telepathy that uses the Hangups library, which is the one actually
> implementing the Hangouts protocol, that maybe is not much of an issue. Also,
> Hangups seems to be well maintained:
>
>    https://github.com/tdryer/hangups/

Hangups seems to work pretty stably and well, and there are several experimental matrix<->hangouts bridges 
out there via hangups. If someone finished one of them off it would be a very viable option.