[Telepathy] Telepathy 1.0 will never happen

[Travis Reitter]

On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 18:15 +0100, Will Thompson wrote:
> On 01/06/11 09:15, Xavier Claessens wrote:
> > Le mercredi 01 juin 2011 à 09:46 +0200, Guillaume Desmottes a écrit :
> >> Le mardi 31 mai 2011 à 15:22 -0400, Robert McQueen a écrit :
> >>>>> Concretely, telepathy-glib would be split into three shared libraries:
> >>> ....
> >>>> Where would live common types such as, say, TpHandle? Both
> >>>> telepathy-glib-dbus-N and tp-glib will use it and tp-glib will have to
> >>>> expose it in its public API.
> 
> I think making handles disappear entirely is probably the best fix. I
> appreciate that they appear in the high-level API for telepathy-glib in
> a bunch of places: I haven't looked over how much pain it would be to
> hide them everywhere. But generally I would like them to suffer a timely
> demise.

If you're set on removing handles, try to make sure there's still a
consistent way to represent contacts which haven't yet been created or
have since been destroyed.

Folks doesn't have a good way to represent pending Personas (read:
contacts) which can make things awkward in the client. We'll probably
fix this in the medium-term by having our add_persona_*() functions
return a Persona immediately and fill in the details (or notify
destruction in case of failure) later. It's not ideal, but switching to
an intermediate ID (like TpHandle) for 2.x seemed like a cleaner fix.
What issues would moving away from TpHandle fix?

Regards,
-Travis