December 16, 2003

Updates...

Ok, the trouble is that the current architecture isn't working out so well for adding some of the timer based features (it can be done, but its ugly and unreliable) you have been requesting. Most likely this is because the As such I have two courses to take:

  1. I can tell you all that I can't implement the features you want, alienate half my user base, and admit defeat (something I don't usually do).
  2. I can take some more time in bringing out the new feature release as I study the packet structure used to communicate with the Sametime server so that I can replace it with an Objective-C based communication kernel and build the applicatoin around it (this has the added benefit of ditching Java in the client, which would clear up many of the crashes that you are seeing ... more on that later).

Well in all honesty I'm taking road two at the moment, it carries with it many benefits not the least of which are the ability to drop all traces of Java in the client (to fix the issues that are being seen with the all to present crashes on thread 9) and it will allow the kernel to be used to provide plugins for some of the open source clients for those of you who are interested in an all in one solution (I'm currently concurrently developing Mercury and a Mercury Sametime plugin for the Adium client, which can be found at http://www.adiumx.com). Feel free to cry out against my decision if you think I'm on the wrong track. I'll still be providing a minor update on 12/21/2003 to hopefully provide a few new features for you all to play with.

Posted by developer at December 16, 2003 08:10 PM
Comments

Well, version 0.1a works and works well. I'm not in any rush for a new version.

I say take your time and do it right.

Thanks.

Posted by: Tyler Weir at December 17, 2003 12:36 PM

I just found Mercury. It looks great. Much better than PiMessanger. Thank you, thank you for writing it. My boss likes us to put our phone numbers in the status message. Maybe you could add the ability to edit the status message in the next release. Thanks again.

-- Tim

Posted by: Tim Sawyer at December 18, 2003 09:34 AM

I'm glad to hear that you're going to a plugin type idea. I'm not familiar with Adium, but from a quick scan it looks like the fire project is much further along. Would it be possible to have a fire implementation?

http://fire.sourceforge.net/

regardless, thank-you for continuing to develop mercury

Posted by: Aamer Akhter at December 18, 2003 11:27 AM

Amazing!

As the first poster said, take your time and get it right. I look forward to the Places support.

Keep up the good work!

Ray

Posted by: Raymond Di Muzio at December 20, 2003 10:18 PM