Re: [gentoo-user] Skype users

[Raymond Jennings]

My guess is that eventually it will be.  Microsoft tends to be fond of
turfing old versions of its software *cough*windows10*cough*

As the mantainer of a package with no patchable source code provided I'll
have little choice but to reflect the upstream reality as clearly as
possible.

What I personally think would be nice:

1.  A backend layer, OS specific, that handles low level details like
making network connections, writing to logs, opening audio/video devices
(mic, speakers, webcam)
2.  A skype layer, OS and GUI independent, that contains everything related
to skype's core stuff.  Encryption, contact lists, group chats, interfacing
with the skype servers
3.  A frontend layer, OS specific, that handles window management, keyboard
input, clicking on menus, providing widgets, and so on.  This could factor
in differences between windows, OSX, GNOME, KDE, GTK+, and the like, all
without compromising the portability of the middle or backend layers.

If Microsoft broke its skype code up like this it would be extremely easy
to maintain in a cross platform manner.

This is how gallium3d was set up

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 6:33 AM, Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o> wrote:

> On 10/04/2016 02:12 PM, Raymond Jennings wrote:
> > Please be advised that skype has been split off into two packages
> >
> > * skype remains for the "classic" version of skype
> > * skypeforlinux is the new package name for microsoft's alpha version
> >
> > There were some version number snarls and it was decided that a split
> > would be cleaner.
> >
> > Blame microsoft for giving their current version a lower number than the
> > classic one.
> Thanks for the heads-up. I saw it in a recent additions/removal email
> and checked eix but didn't see anything pointing out differences.
>
> Does MS have plans to force classic Skype to be obsolete? I hope not...
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