[JDEV] client "proposal" addendum

[Vivre Draco]

On 11 Sep 99,, belg4mit at MIT.EDU sounded off on Re: [JDEV] client "proposal" addendum:

> I see this as being useful for people who run various clients
> under various circumstances. eg; A UN*X enviornment where at a
> workstation they use a graphical client, and when telnetting use a
> command-line client. Why not share the data? 

   Unless I'm mistaken, all the general, non-client specific info is 
stored on the server. The only thing that might be useful to store 
locally would be userid, server, and, on a secure system such as a 
private Unix account, possibly password. I see no reason we couldn't 
have a recommended format to store these in, but if we're going to, 
it should be exceedingly simple. I suggest userid, password, and 
server one after the other separated with a specific character (say, 
semicolon) in a specific order (say, userid;server;password), with 
the password field optional. Location and filename aren't 
particularly relevent, as you should be able to tell your client 
which preferences file to use, and different platforms use different 
directory layouts so it'd be difficult to make a reasonable standard. 
The info only takes one line to store, so we should recommend that 
you allow multiple sets of account info in a file, at one per line.

   'Course, if you only have one account this isn't exactly useful -- 
Each client will have to store 
"accountinfo=C:\jabber\jabberaccounts.txt" or the equivelent there of 
in its own preferences file anywayz, which will most likely take up 
as much if not more space than userid;server;pass. It'd only really 
be useful for ppl with a bunch of accounts, IMHO.

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