April 2006

Screwed up with Find in chat, was fixing one thing and broke another.

The current internal chat structure as not as good as I want it to be. So in order to fix some serious crashes I need to work around existing problems in design by disabling some functionality. This time searching in chat was crashing Skype if you expanded history and tried to search while it was expanding. The workaround is easy — disable Find while history is expanding. However, with all this 100 million registered users excitement I forgot to initialize flag that enables/disables search. And now we have Find that doesn’t work until you expand history. Not Good.

Do not forget to initialize your variables! :)

And hope to see your nick along those 100M registered, or may be next 100M.

So I got kind of allowance to post a little bit about Skype development - how it goes, what problems I face, how I solve them and so on. Kinda daily boring stuff.

I’m still uncertain to what level undisclosure is allowed, so bear with me, I probably will have to edit some posts :)

First bit I’ll start off with is Public API support. Over the last year I haven’t seen much applications using Skype Public API under Linux. It was probably because of D-BUS API instability, or absence of dbus daemons running on user desktops, but anyway - really annoyed with D-BUS constant changes I decided to drop D-BUS support for next release, and while D-BUS interface will be present, it will be mostly nominal, obsolete version of dbus. Hopefully, when D-BUS is mature enough and all distros have approximately the same, compatible dbus versions installed by default — we will have it back.

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