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[Owais Lone <hello@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

I would like to point out that Yowsup (github.com/tgalal/yowsup), the open
whatsapp library is not officially supported by Whatsapp. I'm using it on
N9 and whatsapp break compatibility more often than not. It takes hours to
days to get fixed. Just wanted to point that out in case this is being
discussed for inclusion by default.

Cheers!


On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Matthias Gehre <M.Gehre@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Mika,
>
> regarding the legal issues: From my understanding (I'm not a lawyer!),
> it's forbidden to "explore outside the boundaries of the normal requests
> made by WhatsApp clients", but it does not mention alternative clients.
> Additionally, it seems that
> http://www.openwhatsapp.org (for the Blackberry 10, WebOS and N9) is at
> least tolerated.
>
> But I guess there are people at Canonical who are more knowledgeable about
> possible legal issues.
>
> Best wishes,
> Matthias
>
>
> 2013/3/4 Mika Meskanen <mika.meskanen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>> I had a chat about this with Gustavo today, and based on that I think
>> it's clear that the design team need to provide a generic and scalable user
>> experience within "Telephony" for multiple services and accounts – be it
>> Skype, WhatsApp, Google Talk or something else. Luckily, that's always been
>> on the roadmap :)
>>
>> Considering Ubuntu's cross-platform convergence, that'd also be a client
>> that would work across the board, on the phone, tablet and desktop.
>>
>> However, it appears that WhatsApp does not provide an open API. I suspect
>> there are legal issues with that.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mika
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4 March 2013 19:04, Daniel Holm <d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I would also rather have the one-app integration. One of the things I
>>> really love about Ubuntu is to have all of my IM accounts in one
>>> application. Thats the Ubuntu way ;)
>>>
>>> Vänlig hälsning / Yours sincerely,
>>>  Daniel Holm
>>>  IT Consultant
>>>  Web Developer
>>>  Student
>>>  d.holmen@xxxxxxxxx
>>>  http://www.danielholm.se
>>>
>>> Den mån  4 mar 2013 19:43:52 skrev Renato Araujo Oliveira Filho:
>>>
>>>  On 03/04/2013 03:13 PM, Matthias Gehre wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I saw at http://telepathy.freedesktop.**org/wiki/Telepathy%20Python<http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Telepathy%20Python>that
>>>>> telepathy-python is deprecated, and at I was told at
>>>>> #telepathy that pygobject and telepathy-glib does not work either.
>>>>>
>>>> Yes,  telepathy phyton is deprecated.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Can anyone enlighten me, if there is a supported way to write
>>>>> telepathy plugins in python?
>>>>>
>>>> I do not think so.
>>>>
>>>>  If not, which backend is recommended? libtelepathy-glib or
>>>>> libtelepathy-qt5?
>>>>>
>>>> I asked a colabora engennier and he told me that, both are maintained by
>>>> collabora,  glib has more people working on that.
>>>> I would say to go with qt I think Gustavo is using that on telephony-app
>>>> and he can help you on that.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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