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1Hello,
2
3This plugin allows you to add Skype support to BitlBee. It's mainly written by
4Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>.
5
6How to set it up:
7
8- You need the BitlBee bzr branch:
9
10bzr branch http://code.bitlbee.org/bitlbee/
11
12- You need to enable plugin support:
13
14http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/patches/bitlbee-configure-plugins.patch
15
16- To be able to do an install-dev:
17
18http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/patches/bitlbee-makefile-headers.patch
19
20- Now compile and install it:
21
22./configure --prefix=/usr
23make
24make install install-dev
25
26- Get the plugin code:
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28git clone http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/other/people/vmiklos/bitlbee-skype
29
30- Compile and install it:
31
32make
33cp skype.so /usr/lib/bitlbee
34
35- Start the tcp server:
36
37python skyped.py
38
39NOTE: It's important to start skyped on the same machine and using the same
40user as you run Skype as it uses the session DBus for communication!
41
42What works:
43
44- Download nicks and away statuses from Skype
45
46- Sending messages
47
48- Receiving messages
49
50- Writing a tcp daemon that is a gateway between Skype and tcp
51
52What needs to be done (aka. TODO):
53
54- convert this readme to asciidoc
55
56- we can't ourselves join to &bitlbee (ignore such a message from skype)
57
58- mark received messages as read so that skype won't say there are unread messages
59
60- Away status changes (send / receive)
61
62- join / parts
63
64- add/remove users, detect when somebody wants to add us (maybe detect when we're removed?)
65
66- maybe on account on/off, change our state from/to offline? so that we won't miss any message
67
68- handle the case when the tcp server is not running (currently SIGPIPE is not handled at all by the plugin)
69
70If something does not work and it's not in the TODO section, then please contact me!
71
72Shots at:
73
74http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/pics/shots/bitlbee-skype/
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