Re: Twitter, again

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Hi Branbdt,

no cawbird in Slint, sorry.

But several clients can be built from building stuff available
at https://slackbuilds.org 'somehow similar to the AUR

Just type:
spi twitter
to know your options.

If you want one type as root:
slapt-src -i <package>

as noted in:
https://slint.fr/doc/HandBook.html#Get_additional_applications

Caveat: for now there is an issue; six is noted as a dep of several
packages in the list, but actually python-six, included in Slint, is the same
software. I hope to solve that in the coming days.

For now, as a workaround you can accept to build and install six as deps,
although it will be somehow redundant.

Oh, and you don't always need to get a new computer to install Slint on bare
metal, there are other possibilities noted in:
https://slint.fr/doc/HandBook.html#_features_of_the_installer

Also, feel free to use one of our support channels:
https://slint.fr/doc/HandBook.html#_support_and_contributions

For IRC, Slint includes pidgin and irssi.

Cheers,
Didier
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Didier Spaier

Le 21/07/2021 à 21:52, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit :
Hi all,


I found cawbird for Arch to be semi usable. It is a GUI application, but being a pragmatist, I will use whatever does the job. Unfortunately I actually need twitter for some of my work, so I will have to see if cawbird is available in Slint. I love both Arch and Slint, but I have to use whatever works for my situation.

Warm regards,

Brandt Steenkamp

Sent from Thunderbird on  Arch Linux

On 7/21/21 3:49 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jul 2021, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

Oysttyer has been available for some time now and perl is used to run it.
The emacs environment has ttytter available, and python has
rainbow-twitter available.

Note that Oysttyer is the successor to TTYtter, both in Perl. TTYtter has not been developed since 2012 and there's probably no good reason to use it anymore.

Oysttyer itself has not seen any commits since 2018, which is a bit concerning.

More annoying is that all installs show up as the same app, and because of Twitter stupidness, all count in terms of daily quotas, etc.  So it's common to be unable to post due to quotas having been exceeded when you've not posted anything today.

I'll spare you my rant about Twitter and the way they manage their API. The one-line summary of it is that they should charge *users* a nominal fee for API access and leave the poor developers alone.

I've not tried RainbowStream, I've been meaning to.  At least it seems to be under active development.

There are some other options out there.  Searching your favourite package manager will likely turn up some.

Cheers,
Geoff.



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