This is libfaim, the purpose of which is to implement as much as the
AOL AIM/OSCAR protocol as possible (which should be all of it). After
-over a year of development, its still nowhere close.
+over two years of development, its still nowhere close.
This is not a full client and never will be. libfaim only implements
the routines to implement a client (ie, there's no user interface).
beta-quality and I know it leaks memory quite badly. It seems fairly
stable, however. YMMV, YAYOR, etc. I suppose I should say regardless of
that warning, that several clients use it and people use those clients
-on a daily basis (in particular, me).
+on a daily basis (in particular, me). Also, you're probably reading this
+from a CVS version, since I haven't made a release in a very long time.
+The CVS version changes fairly rapidly when I'm in the mood, so a version
+you checked out an hour ago may be better or worse than a version you
+check out now.
Building
Use the source and utils/faimtest/faimtest.c as a reference when coding
front-ends.
+Mailing Lists
+-------------
+
+Thanks to Sourceforge, we have our mailing lists back. See:
+http://www.sourceforge.org/mail/?group_id=920 for instructions
+on subscribing to the lists:
+
+ libfaim-devel: Discussion of libfaim and its developement.
+ libfaim-aim-protocol: Discussion of the finer points of OSCAR hacking
+
Contact Info
------------
-The author (Adam Fritzler), can be reached at afritz@iname.com or mid@auk.cx.
-
-I did have mailing lists available for faim-related discussion, but they
-have dwindled and eventually broke and to my knowledge have yet to fix
-themselves.
+The author (Adam Fritzler), can be reached at mid@auk.cx.
Front-end information:
http://www.auk.cx/faim/