On Cerebro, Telepathy, yokes and whites (was Re: cerebro in sugar)

Tue Jun 10 13:15:46 EDT 2008

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Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote:
| 2) Make provision in both sugar and activities so that there is a clear
| abstraction from telepathy so that _if_ a better collaboration stack
| comes along, telepathy won't be "hardcoded" in sugar. This mainly
| involves documenting the existing calls from sugar/activities to
| telepathy (and objects returned thereof) and signals provided by telepathy.

Telepathy _is_ that abstraction.  It exists specifically so that different
underlying collaboration mechanisms can be used interchangeably.  For
example, Telepathy can run over not only Jabber but also IRC, MSN, AIM,
and other protocols.  It seems perfectly reasonable to add Cerebro to this
list.

If you think Telepathy's API should be changed in some way, then that is
perfectly reasonable.  Telepathy's API can be changed in response to user
requirements.  Please make those suggestions public.

- --Ben
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