[desktop-discuss] xchat ? disappeared? why?

[Mike Kiedrowski]

Hi Everyone,
I didn't have the SFExchat.spec file built but I ran it through pkgbuild 
and sent David the packages (off list).

~Mike

Ghee Teo wrote:
> David,
>
>  would agree with you the long list of unstablity of gaim is far from 
> desirable. I have time when gaim just simply disappear from screen,
> No dump, exit on a abort signal. Then I try to run gaim -d in a 
> terminal, and I just can't get that to exit anymore.
> Laca did suggest there is a dbus related bug. We will wait and see 
> whether that sudden Hodini trick still bearing deep down
> somewhere.
>
>  If you are familiar with spec files extra, there is a spec file 
> already defined for building xchat yourself.
> https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pkgbuild/spec-files-extra/trunk/
>
> -Ghee
> P.s. I bet someone must have these packages built and is somewhere on 
> their machine. What to share it?
>
> Jnome Desktop System (C) by David Lloyd (:))
>
> David Lloyd wrote:
>>
>> Ghee,
>>
>>> xchat is never part of JDS desktop. But yo can you can use IRC with 
>>> gaim which comes with JDS.
>>
>> Gaim on JDS has, for me, been sadly and horrendously unstable:
>>
>>  1. When I first started using it, circa b47, the MSN protocol would
>>     crash it [not Gaim's fault but still annoying]
>>
>>  2. Circa b49 it would just randomly core dump
>>
>>  3. Circa b53, IRC to irc.freenode.net will work but only sometimes
>>
>>     - it was working two days ago
>>     - it's not working now
>>     - by "not working" I mean "core dumping"
>>
>>  4. No, I can't produce a bug report because I guarantee you that today
>>     or tomorrow it will start working again until it core dumps again
>>
>>     - In other words, I can't easily reproduce the problem and I don't
>>       want to waste people's time when it might be something I've been
>>       doing
>>
>>  5. Oh, the one at home on b56 is currently working
>>
>> How would one request a product become part of the Jnome Desktop System?
>>
>> [Ok, I couldn't resist it :P]
>>
>> DSL
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