[JDEV] Jabber with Linux distros?

[Jonathan McDowell]

On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 09:59:51AM -0400, Fabien Ninoles wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 02:09:45PM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 01:12:21PM +0100, Oliver Rose wrote:
> > > I think I remember seeing a jabber server in the stable tree of
> > > debian.  Again, I think it was an old version.
> > There's no Jabber bits in stable. However there are in unstable and so
> > some of these will be part of the release that should happen by the end
> > of the year hopefully.
> > 
> > the:/# apt-cache search jabber
> > gabber - A GNOME Jabber client.
> > jabber - Daemon for the jabber.org Open Source Instant Messenger
> > konverse - a Jabber client for KDE
> > libjabber1 - Jabber Transport and various lib functions
> > libjabber1-dev - Jabber Transport and various lib functions
> > libxml-stream-perl - Perl module for accessing XML Streams
> > libxode1 - library of XML and string helper functions.
> > libxode1-dev - library of XML and string helper functions.
> > 
> > The jabber server version is 1.4.
> 
> Yes, but with no transport as far as I know, mostly no doc and no
> automatic way to configure it easily.

I'm looking at packaging at least a couple of transports. What sort of
automatic configuration do you want? DYM setting the hostname for the
server or more complex stuff?

For the likes of installing a transport doing automatic configuration is
tricky - it requires adding things to the server configuration file. I'm
not really that keen on packages munging text config files. Perhaps a
patch and then a debconf query to ask if you want to patch the main
server file to include the transport might work.

> > I've been thinking about uploading JabberX at some point, but I'd rather
> > wait for a release of it first rather than just uploading a CVS build.
> JabberX miss a lot of things to be very useful by itself (like nick
> setting, tab completion and history).  But it's on a good way and I used
> it almost everytime.

It's the only option I've found if you want to use text mode.

J.

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