kopete and MSN

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bingo

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Sunday, September 25th 2005, 6:07pm

kopete and MSN

I use Suse 9.0 with KDE 3.1

I'm trying to connect messenger via kopete, but there is an authentication problem. I have been reading through the faq and googled a bit. It seems this problem has been fixed in the most recent versions of kopete. However, I was wondering whether I can fix the problem in my old kopete without install a new version.
Should I edit some file (wich one and what ?) or is there some patch to download?

Any help, please?!

Thanks!!!

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daihard

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Location: Lynnwood, WA, USA

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Thursday, September 29th 2005, 9:42pm

RE: kopete and MSN

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Originally posted by bingo
I use Suse 9.0 with KDE 3.1

I'm trying to connect messenger via kopete, but there is an authentication problem. I have been reading through the faq and googled a bit. It seems this problem has been fixed in the most recent versions of kopete. However, I was wondering whether I can fix the problem in my old kopete without install a new version.
Should I edit some file (wich one and what ?) or is there some patch to download?

What is the version of Kopete that comes with KDE 3.1? If it is 0.8.x (which I somehow recall it is), then I don't think it's very easy to apply the fix to it.

http://kopete.kde.org/

The official page does not even mention KDE 3.1 anymore.

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bingo

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Sunday, October 2nd 2005, 3:51pm

RE: kopete and MSN

I'm using the version 0.7.3
Tryed to install a newer version, but with KDE 3.1 I miss some library and the installation procedure don't go anyhow. (I'm quite disappointed about the philosophy of few or small compatibility between newer and older version....why there isn't any easy and fast way to update, rather than paintfull install everything again etc...etc..)

Anyhow, I found some information about a possible solution, but I'm too newby to solve it. Can anyone help me?

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105929

SVN commit 415681 by ogoffart:

Repair the broken MSN due to microsoft server update.

The SslLoginHandler classe is imported from KMess code.

Bug: 105929
Bug: 105912

M +2 -1 trunk/KDE/kdenetwork/kopete/protocols/msn/Makefile.am
M +24 -87 trunk/KDE/kdenetwork/kopete/protocols/msn/msnnotifysocket.cpp
M +5 -4 trunk/KDE/kdenetwork/kopete/protocols/msn/msnnotifysocket.h
M +1 -1 trunk/KDE/kdenetwork/kopete/protocols/msn/msnsocket.cpp
A trunk/KDE/kdenetwork/kopete/protocols/msn/sslloginhandler.cpp [License:
GPL (v2+)]
A trunk/KDE/kdenetwork/kopete/protocols/msn/sslloginhandler.h [License: GPL
(v2+)]

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daihard

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Location: Lynnwood, WA, USA

Occupation: Senior Database Software Engineer

Sunday, October 2nd 2005, 5:09pm

RE: kopete and MSN

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Originally posted by bingo
I'm using the version 0.7.3
Tryed to install a newer version, but with KDE 3.1 I miss some library and the installation procedure don't go anyhow. (I'm quite disappointed about the philosophy of few or small compatibility between newer and older version....why there isn't any easy and fast way to update, rather than paintfull install everything again etc...etc..)

Anyhow, I found some information about a possible solution, but I'm too newby to solve it. Can anyone help me?
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105929

SVN commit 415681 by ogoffart:

Repair the broken MSN due to microsoft server update.

The SslLoginHandler classe is imported from KMess code.

Bug: 105929
Bug: 105912

M +2 -1 trunk/KDE/kdenetwork/kopete/protocols/msn/Makefile.am
M +24 -87 trunk/KDE/kdenetwork/kopete/protocols/msn/msnnotifysocket.cpp
M +5 -4 trunk/KDE/kdenetwork/kopete/protocols/msn/msnnotifysocket.h
M +1 -1 trunk/KDE/kdenetwork/kopete/protocols/msn/msnsocket.cpp
A trunk/KDE/kdenetwork/kopete/protocols/msn/sslloginhandler.cpp [License:
GPL (v2+)]
A trunk/KDE/kdenetwork/kopete/protocols/msn/sslloginhandler.h [License: GPL
(v2+)]

The above only shows which files within the kopete source code were changed (and how much). It does not tell you exactly what was changed. Without that information, it is impossible to apply the changes to the source files and recompile your Kopete.

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bingo

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Tuesday, October 4th 2005, 2:04pm

RE: kopete and MSN

ok, do you or anybody else know what to do?
I'm quite pissed-off from the fact that I cannot install later kopete versions because my KDE is too old (even though installed roughly one year ago...).
I use linux for work and I'm not intended to spend most of my time just to update software....I wonder whether this is the original linux spirit? How can people devoted to develope software be so perverse that you have to do all over again? Why so little compatibility between different versions?
Is that really the spirit of user friendly and efficiency? I don't think so .... sorry!

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daihard

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Posts: 89

Location: Lynnwood, WA, USA

Occupation: Senior Database Software Engineer

Tuesday, October 4th 2005, 5:25pm

RE: kopete and MSN

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Originally posted by bingo
ok, do you or anybody else know what to do?
I'm quite pissed-off from the fact that I cannot install later kopete versions because my KDE is too old (even though installed roughly one year ago...).
I use linux for work and I'm not intended to spend most of my time just to update software....I wonder whether this is the original linux spirit? How can people devoted to develope software be so perverse that you have to do all over again? Why so little compatibility between different versions?
Is that really the spirit of user friendly and efficiency? I don't think so .... sorry!

One issue is that companies like Microsoft change their messenger protocols so often that third-party vendors like KDE must upgate their software more frequently than they originally intended to. I agree that it would be nice if they could provide the newer version of Kopete that works with an older version of KDE. With limited resource, it was probably one of the tough decisions they made.

In fact, KDE isn't all that famous for its backwards compatibility. They have made major changes to its APIs twice (or was it three times?) since its debut.

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