Re: aMSN and BWidget

[Wart <wart kobold org>]

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Sander Hoentjen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am the maintainer of aMSN in Extras, and there is currently a bug in
> the FE version of aMSN.

Do you have a bugzilla #?

 This bug occurs because upstream aMSN uses it's
> own modified version of BWidget. Most of the changes are minor so that
> is why it was decided to use the already packaged bwidget version for FE
> amsn. It turns out however that one of the changes is really needed. I
> reported this change to upstream and I hope they will incorporate it but
> i haven't had a reply yet (only 2 days since i reported, so it can still
> come).
> In the meantime the bug is still there, and there are a few possible
> fixes:
> 1) I put the modified bwidget in the amsn package and use that

Ick.  Please no.

> 2) I modify amsn so it can work with the bwidget that is in extras (it
> will result in a bit reduced functionality (not being able to choose
> chat font color anymore)

Doesn't amsn already work around these private bwidget changes?  I seem
to recall that amsn redefines some of the bwidget procs after bwidgets
has been loaded.  Can a similar thing be done here?

> 3) a small patch is applied to bwidget (which is 100% backwards
> compatible, it only adds an optional option)

As the FE maintainer of bwidget, I'd be willing to add this patch to the
FE package.  File a bug against bwidget in bugzilla.redhat.com and
attach your patch.

> My hope is the change will be in upstream bwidget in the future, and if
> that would happen option 3 seems the nicest one, but if it won't happen
> i would prefer option 1. What are others (wart?) opinions about this?

Upstream bwidgets seems to be a bit slow about making new releases (the
last one was in 2003), so the best option seems to be to patch bwidget
in FE.

- --Wart
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