everybuddy

Dino deanmao at cc.gatech.edu
Sun Mar 4 15:51:08 UTC 2001


Dino wrote:
> 
> Brian Zhou wrote:
> >
> > Hi Squeakers,
> >
> > Happen to bump into http://www.everybuddy.com which is quite interesting.
> > Only wish it was in Squeak. Having GNU/Linux as their base, they kinda limit
> > the application to linux/unix only, and they have to re-invent wheels as to
> > HTML parsing, multimedia support etc.
> >
> > Just wondering if there will be any problem license-wise if someone want to
> > port GNU licensed software into squeak?
> 
> Since you're looking at everybuddy, I'm guessing you're looking for a
> AIM/ICQ clone eh?  I've written one called IWIN that handles both ICQ
> and AIM though I havent updated it in ages.  (it works though)  I think
> you can still access it at http://instantmessaging.swiki.net.

Oh yeah, I might mention that I didn't have to reinvent the wheels as
for HTML parsing/multimedia support etc. since Squeak already has most
of this stuff.  It was only a little irritating in the very beginning of
this app when Squeak didn't have full UDP support built in.

Dean





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