MSN - Butterfly or Haze

[David Edmundson]

I'm making the executive decision - we're switching to Haze.

Does anyone want to volunteer to make a accounts-kcm plugin for haze-msn?
It's not too difficult work, but it needs doing before the hard freeze
(Saturday) ideally ASAP.

Dave

On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Lukas Hetzenecker
<lukas.hetzenecker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some time ago I asked on the IRC channel about the state of the
> telepathy-python wrapper and heard that only the client part is
> deprecated, but the connection manager / server side is still
> supported.
>
> 2011/10/7 David Edmundson <david at davidedmundson.co.uk>:
>> Currently butterfly does not support the method we use for KWallet
>> integration for passwords.
>>
>> This leaves us a bit fucked.
>>
>> George K suggested we simply use the MSN plugin from Haze rather than
>> Butterfly. It apparently doesn't lose your messages and has the
>> password interface we need.
>>
>> We use butterfly because of this wiki page:
>> http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Haze%20vs%20Butterfly but it's
>> mostly obsolete now. I've heard telepathy devs complain about
>> butterfly and want to see it scrapped.
>>
>> When asked on the telepathy mailing list the response was "fix
>> butterfly". Given this probably includes fixing telepathy-python which
>> is deprecated, frankly I can't be bothered.  Besides we'd never get it
>> to the users in time for our release anyway.
>>
>> So:
>> Who here uses MSN?
>> Do you use butterfly or haze? Have you tried both? Which is better?
>> Any strong opinions?
>>
>> Due to the feature freeze we need to make a decision ASAP.
>>
>> Dave
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