Clarification regarding the usage of skype API's

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 13:58 -0800, ravik wrote:
>  
> Hi,
> I want to develop a chat application using skype API's on Linux
> Platform. So, is it necessary that the user has to login on skype for
> the chat application to work??? We actually downloaded ddummy
> application from the skype developer zone and ran it in both server
> mode and client mode. Both authentication,connection were successfull.
> Even I got message as "PING succesfull. PID is 0". All this has
> happened only when I logged onto skype using my user id and password.
> Can't the above sequence happen without me logging on to skype???

You need to talk to the Skype people.  Skype embeds an old version of
D-Bus in it which we do not support.  Also being that Skype is closed
source we can not look at the code to see what is going on. 

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John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>