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Tinfoil-SMS - Texting for the paranoid.
http://tinfoilhat.github.io/tinfoil-sms
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Include tinfoil-sms in F-Droid #72

Open landroni opened 10 years ago

landroni commented 10 years ago

I notice that tinfoil-sms takes care of providing a tag specifically designed for F-Droid, but unfortunately the F-Droid developers are unable to include your app in their repo. Most recently this has been discussed here: https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/tinfoil-sms-perfect-alternative-to-textsecure/#post-12690

and one of the maintainers had this to say:

I had another try and got into dependency hell. I am at the point where migrating tinfoil to a gradle build on our side is easier than adding the dependecies. I opened an issue with Orwell library to get them into mavenCentral or jCenter, so we can easyly fetch them from gradle: https://github.com/gnu-user/orwell/issues/2

Along with QuickMSG (a similar secure texting app), it would be awesome if users were able to install Tinfoil from F-Droid. Is there something that Tinfoil devels can do to ease things up and make that happen?

tristan-k commented 9 years ago

Please make this happen!

gnu-user commented 9 years ago

@tristan-k Hi, we will try and make it happen, all of the code is open source, would it make it easier to include into F-Droid if we moved Tinfoil-SMS to using the gradle build system instead of including open-source code bundled as jar files?

landroni commented 9 years ago

I guess best would be to discuss these F-Droid related questions here: https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/tinfoil-sms-perfect-alternative-to-textsecure/#post-12690

This way F-Droid maintainers can explain exactly what are their issues with building the package.

gnu-user commented 9 years ago

@landroni I will comment on it, at the moment we would like to try and recruit some new talent to work on the project and help maintain it. @dataBaseError and myself are very willing to spend time walking through the design/code to whomever is interested in contributing to the project.

gnu-user commented 9 years ago

@landroni I have replied to the post: https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/tinfoil-sms-perfect-alternative-to-textsecure/#post-12690

If you can drum up some interest on the F-Droid forums we could likely work with them to make it easy to add the app to their repository.