Yahoo! Protocol and signals

[GS]

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Etan Reisner <pidgin at unreliablesource.net>wrote:

> On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 11:59:01AM +0400, GS wrote:
> > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Etan Reisner <
> pidgin at unreliablesource.net>wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:47:19PM +0400, GS wrote:
> > > > The yahoo protocol plugin doesn't emit any signals and I need to make
> a
> > > > plugin based on it. Any chance for implementing signals later on ?
> Can I
> > > > submit a patch ?
> > >
> > > What sort of signals would you want it to emit? What would you want to
> do
> > > with those signals? Do none of the existing libpurple or pidgin signals
> do
> > > what you need? What sort of plugin are you intending on making? Keep in
> > > mind that plugins can't (officially) call prpl specific functions.
> > >
> > Hmmm... I don't think you'll like this guys. But I want to make an
> > invisibility detection plugin. And I just need to 'peek' at the coming
> bytes
> > as I already can send using send_raw(). If this plugin is not gonna reach
> > the plugin page then no problem. But I really wanna make this.
> > I saw the XMPP console plugin and it registers a functions with the
> > receiving signal of the XMPP protocol plugin. Didn't find one in the
> yahoo
> > plugin.
> >
> > >    -Etan
> > >
>
> The Yahoo prpl doesn't expose a send_raw function. Presumably because
> there isnt a simple raw format that can be used (though possibly just
> because no one saw a need to expose one).
>
> Similarly, if there is no exposed way to send raw data then there is
> little-to-no reason to expose raw received data by things like a
> yahoo-receiving signal.
>
> I don't know enough about Yahoo to say whether we should have either of
> those, but at the moment we don't.
>
>    -Etan
>

Yes but could I submit a patch for all this later on ? This wouldn't hurt
you guys. It'll just do a lot of benefit to me.
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