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[Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And no, contractor itself does nothing. It's not a sharing service. Contractor is a desktop-wide app-agnostic extension provider.

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Daniel Foré

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El feb 18, 2012, a las 1:03 a.m., Manish Sinha <manishsinha@xxxxxxxxxx> escribió:

> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> There's no need to have API's for apps to tie directly into. Thats the point of contractor is to not have to do that sort of thing. Once the original app hands off something to a receiving app/service, its work is done. The sending app should never have to know about or care what the receiving app/service is.
> 
> That too sounds fine. Right now, I don't have very deep understanding
> how apps are going to do it, If the app hands off something to be
> shared to twitter and twitter account is not authenticated, then who
> should show the "login" window? App or contractor?
> 
>> I really feel like we should do our best to have contracts bundled with apps and not as stand-alone packages. Nobody should ever think "Gee i should install the web contracts meta package". Users should simply install Gwibber or Polly for their twitter features, not thinking about the fact that there's a service that ties these apps together.
> 
> As per my understanding is, contractor is a separate
> application/system which handles sharing and the applications uses it
> to sends the data to it so that contractor can share it. If this is
> the case then what you talking about bundling in applications is
> contractor support. The contracts should be bundled with contractor.
> it's like "contractor supports these many contracts".
> 
> Yes, contractor, the various contracts and the applications with
> contractor integration should all be installed by default. It should
> be out of box. The user does not even need to install gwibber and
> polly as gwibber's backing library is enough to provide the support
> for various contracts. The users should not even care whether gwibber
> or polly is providing the sharing service. Basically the sharing
> service should work even without gwibber or polly application
> installed.
> 
>> In other words, users shouldn't know that contractor even exists. It's just an implementation detail.
> 
> Yes. Agree
> 
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