[JDEV] Standards

[Daniel Arbuckle]

I won't touch the issue of whether this is a good idea. But if it is
done, wouldn't it be wise to use an XML formatted data file? After
all, every client author already has an XML parser, so there would be
no need to write a parser for your C-like config format.

Daniel

On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 01:24:57PM -0500, Jerrad Pierce wrote:
> Okay I'd previously proposed this and got deafening silence as a reply, let's
> try again, shall we?
> 
> How about (strongly) recommended switche names and configuration format for
> jabber clients? At the very leats iit would be nifty if say all perl clients
> could use the same config file, if not all jabber clients...
> 
> I propose something like the following:
> 
> #jabber Configurations
> %default = {
> 	user=>'bob',
> 	nick=>'bobo',
> 	server=>'jabber.org',
> 	port=>5122};
> %other = {
> 	user=>'dave',
> 	pass=>'pass',
> 	server=>'localhost'}
> #client specific options
> %_PBnJ = {
> 	quiet=>1,
> 	log=>0 };
> 
> 
> And then for switches:
> C	specify which configuration to use
> 
> S	server
> P	port
> 
> u	user
> n	nick
> p	pass
> 
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