[Adium-devl] Metacontact Plans for Adium 1.1

[Augie Fackler]

On Sep 28, 2006, at 10:25 PM, Colin Barrett wrote:

> On Sep 28, 2006, at 4:13 PM, Augie Fackler wrote:
>
>> I'm still a little hesitant on CK. I think things like CK will be  
>> less valuable as we start getting some of the more intricate VV  
>> things happening, but we'll burn that bridge when we come to it.  
>> *If* a good solution for that can be found without making multiple  
>> heads asplode, then I think we're OK. Perhaps consulting the  
>> Vorlon again will help with that.
>
> I'm not sure I follow your logic here -- in fact, things like CK  
> would seem *more* valuable once VV starts getting involved. Want  
> video and audio conferencing in your app? CK offers that nearly for  
> free. I don't see how this is a Bad Thing. Either way, it's still a  
> good idea to re-organize the Adium API this way, regardless of what  
> CK is doing -- the CK stuff is just bonus points, really.

We'll see. I'm still of a wait-and-see approach to CK, and I think  
planning for *maybe* using it in the future is a Good Thing, but  
planning for "we *are* using CK in the future" is (IMNSHO) a Bad Thing.

>
>>> In general, I think this is a good idea, and would be a good  
>>> excuse to
>>> clean up AIContactController.m (ugh). All the more reason we should
>>> get started on this ASAP: i.e. branch for this as soon as we have an
>>> API outline finalized.
>>
>> Excuse nothing, we'll *have* to make changes anyway, I say we fix  
>> as much of it as we can and take the black magic out while we're  
>> in there. I shouldn't be able to stare at an object for several B5  
>> eps in a row and *still* have no concept of how it works  
>> internally. It's time for prettifying that particular block of  
>> code. With doxygenation.
>
> By "excuse" I meant "motivation to touch that evil, evil hunk of  
> code that nobody sane would touch normally." Although I suppose  
> none of us are really 100% sane anyway (we *do* work on Adium ;)

Haha, even without these bugs being exposed I was gonna branch and  
rip out the contact controller and make it not suck.

>
> -Colin

AF
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