[reSIProcate] deprecated directories

[Alan Hawrylyshen]

On Jun 25, 2005, at 21:30, Adam Roach wrote:

> Adam Roach wrote:
>
>
>> Fischl jason wrote:
>>
>>
>>> What is the status of the following subdirectories/projects in  
>>> resiprocate:
>>> - gag: no idea
>>> - gaim-patch: no idea
>>>
>>>
>>
>> These have fallen into a state of disrepair. The gaim-patch is for  
>> pretty old version of gaim, and gag is based on the pre-dum TuIM  
>> class. If anyone wants to resurrect this effort, they would be  
>> better off starting the gag stuff over from scratch, and basing it  
>> on top of dum.
>>
>> In practice, I've become too frustrated with gaim's overall  
>> quality and various Spencerisms to be very motivated to work on  
>> anything related to it. My long-term direction in this area is to  
>> come up with a dedicated, stand-alone MSRP-based IM client.
>>
>
>
> [Replying to myself, since I realize that my answer wasn't very  
> definitive]
>
> More concretely, unless someone objects (and I would make sure that  
> Robert and Cullen specifically are given an opportunity to do so),  
> I would propose that both of these directories can be removed, so  
> long as they are archived somewhere easy to get to. (I'm not sure  
> "somewhere in the vast history of the svn tree" qualifies as  
> somewhere easy to get to). If they *are* resurrected, they really  
> should be their own project -- and quite probably in their own  
> repository (although that's a completely different can of worms).

I agree with Adam -- they are interesting enough that we don't want  
them to 'disappear' so there is a ready record of this effort.
I'd suggest an obsolete or deprecated directory that contains these  
items, along with a README that explains basically exactly what Adam  
wrote above, namely: These are old and lonely; the gag system should  
use DUM and the gaim -patch is for  a pre-historic GAIM release.

mmm. Spenserisms.  Is that like a spoonerism?

Alan