[aur-general] Removal request: qgoogletranslator

[Jonathan Steel]

On 5 December 2011 16:33, Kwpolska <kwpolska at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Jonathan Steel <jsteel at vorx.com> wrote:
>> 2011/12/2 Bartłomiej Piotrowski <barthalion at gmail.com>:
>>> On 02.12.2011 16:24, karnath wrote:
>>>> Hello.
>>>>
>>>> Please, remove  bunch of qgoogletranslator  packages [1] [2]  [3], since
>>>> google suspended Google Translate APIv1 [4] and project is closed.
>>>>
>>>> [1]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41005
>>>> [2]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48111
>>>> [3]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33011
>>>> [4]: http://code.google.com/apis/language/translate/overview.html
>>>>
>>>
>>> Done, thank you.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Bartłomiej Piotrowski
>>> Arch Linux Trusted User
>>> http://archlinux.org/
>>>
>>
>> I don't understand why qgoogletranslate was removed. I was happily
>> maintaining it. It still works fine. Even though "Google Translate API
>> v1 is no longer available", "Google Translate API v2 is now available
>> as a paid service only, and the number of requests your application
>> can make per day is limited".
>>
>> Am I going to have to re-submit it?
>>
>> Jonathan
>
> No, because nobody needs a broken package.  It won't work.  Period.

It does work; I'm using it now.

Can someone put it back or should I re-submit it and have the
votes/comments put back on it afterwards?

Jonathan