[JDEV] wireless IM

[David Waite]

Robert Thompson wrote:
> 
> Talk like this (below) excites me.
> 
> But I feel paralized because there are virtually no Win32 Dev resources.
> 
> I'm really getting depressed about this -- do we at least have a target date
> for the alpha or beta release of Jabber.dll for Win32?
> 

Well this would be cool. But in the current environment of "10 new
people a day wanting the DLL, 1 person total actually interested (or
stuck with) implementation", it might be a while.

Seems those who are qualified to help with a Win32 DLL (like myself) are
trying to stay as far away from Win32 programming as possible these
days.

> Would I test this using a Jabber server already up?
> 
> Then, what do I do for my own server, setup a Linux machine or will an NT
> Jabber server ever be available.

Testing could be done via jabber.org's server, or I would be more than
happy setting up a 'jabber' account with the server on it on a box I
have on a T1.

The main holdup for a jabber server is just libpth, the portable threads
library. The main holdup for _that_ is just that it hasn't been ported
to cygwin. A native server would require a near-complete rewrite (of
course), but a cygnus wintools- based on should just compile. It doesn't
currently because it cannot guess the stack setup of windows (to set up
multiple stacks, to do multiple processes user-side). 

Basically, server has to wait until someone sees a need to get it
working.

-David Waite