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PrasannaVenkadesh / Whiz-Chat

This is a simple chat application that can be run from Terminal. For now only Google account is supported and we will add features in further versions.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Installer no longer works #1

Open morriscode opened 10 years ago

morriscode commented 10 years ago

Just an FYI, ran it on 14.04 Ubuntu and it tossed a bunch of ruby errors. Looks like just old dependancies are required. Anyone keeping this current or no?

PrasannaVenkadesh commented 10 years ago

Hi @morriscode, I assume most of the things should have been broken by this time. It is written with a combination of web scrapping and xmpp libraries. Though xmpp libraries might work, web scrapping will definitely not work by now, since google would have changed page layouts and tags.

This can be rewritten using Google API's, and moreover Google has replaced the Open XMPP protocol for their chat with their proprietary Hangouts protocol.

I am not immediately going to rewrite or make modifications to the script, but anyone else is free to fork / clone or do whatever with the code. It is GPL v3(Free Software) licensed.