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Telepathy for Delta Chat
Who
Authored by Nick Thomas under the MIT License.
What
Delta Chat is IM over email. Telepathy is a framework for abstracting over multiple IM protocols. This project glues the two together, allowing Telepathy clients to send/receive Delta messages.
Telepathy CMs should have a name that is not the same as their protocol; so this CM is hereby named "padfoot".
Why
Mobile IM, mostly. Desktop IM, also. It's ideal for my pinephone, and lighter than the electron desktop client.
How
This project is written in Rust, just like the main Delta library, so you'll need a rust compiler to build it.
It makes use of the dbus-codegen-rust crate to convert the
telepathy interface specs into
the executable code in src/telepathy. This is checked in, but can be
regenerated like so:
$ git submodule init telepathy-spec
$ git submodule update telepathy-spec
$ cargo install dbus-codegen-rust
$ ./scripts/dbus-codegen
dbus-codegen-rust doesn't seem to handle namespaced attributes properly, so
we modify the XML files in telepathy-spec... with sed. The tp:type
attribute is renamed to tp:typehint.