From: "Nuno Silva (aka njsg)" <nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: net-im/kmess, net-im/amsn, x11-themes/amsn-skins
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 07:04:56 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1d96o$95t$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 54062CB3.90909@gentoo.org
On 2014-09-02, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> They were already masked, but because of
> http://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2014/08/31/msn-messenger-is-completely-shutting-down-on-october-31st/
> , I see no point having these packages in the tree anymore. I will
> remove them in 30 days
>
> # Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org> (02 Sep 2014)
> # MSN service terminated.
> # You can still use your MSN account in net-im/skype
> # or switch to an open protocol instead
> # Masked for removal in 30 days
> net-im/kmess
> net-im/amsn
> x11-themes/amsn-skins
>
This is not the first time that people report that "MSN is going to shut
down". So far, Skype itself is reported to use the MSN protocol internally
in the latest versions.
IMHO it would be better if the packages were removed because they don't
work with the current versions of MSNP supported by the servers than
because of a forbes article.
In fact, this article says "MSN Messenger is only available in mainland
China until then.". I have just connected two MSN Messenger accounts
through amsn 0.98.9 on gentoo and I successfully sent messages between
the accounts.
amsn seems to be working outside of china. You may want to reconsider
this mask for removal.
--
Nuno Silva (aka njsg)
Helsinki, Finland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-12 7:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-02 20:46 [gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-im/kmess, net-im/amsn, x11-themes/amsn-skins Markos Chandras
2014-10-12 7:04 ` Nuno Silva (aka njsg) [this message]
2014-10-19 10:09 ` [gentoo-dev] " Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
2014-10-19 10:47 ` Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
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