[Kopete-devel] Post 3.2 Kopete and packagers

[Jason Keirstead]

On November 25, 2003 12:55 pm, Zack Rusin wrote:

> I used to think that way, but the problem is that protocols change all 
> the time now. Assuming a one per year KDE release and protocols which 
> change every 6 months, probably a few months before the release all 
> protocols wouldn't be working which is really not a situation you want 
> to be in.

This isn't really true. The IM protocols do not change very often. Changing these 
protocols is probably quite cost-prohibitive for the big IM companies, because every
time they change a protocol they're losing some users for at least a certain period,
and this detracts from their ad revenue.

Over the past couple of months we have had two major protocols change (MSN and Yahoo),
but really, this is the first protocol change I have seen at all since joining the project 2 years
ago. Though there will probably be an OSCAR update at some point in the future, I somewhat
doubt that it won't be backwards compatable, since AOL still supports versions of their connection
software from 3 versions back.


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