[JDEV] Reaching for the Ultimate Win32 Client

[Adam Theo]

Hello, all.

After trying to help many newbies get onto Jabber, I have become
incredibly frustrated at the current state of Jabber clients for the
Windows platform. While Linuxites and BSDites like myself may be fine
with an incomplete Psi (no GroupChat!) and the clunky Jarl, our Windows
friends are clearly not. And this is made all the worse my the majority
of the Windows clients being buggy, incomplete, or difficult to download
and install.

So I have begun a think-tank project to help organize and plan the
Ultimate Windows Client (for Newbies). It is *not* intended to actually
code it, just develop ideas for it, foster interest in it, and promote
it to the masses.

There are currently two options I am considering (but suggest more if
you can!):

1: Building a modular, COM-based client. It would be easy to develop
for, since it could accept a wide range of programming languages and
would be intelligently componentialized.

2: Using and helping the development of Peter Milliard's new Exodus
client, which boasts to be one of the most stable, fastest, and
well-featured clients for Windows (and potentially UNIX, too).

Help me and others decide which route to take and how to do it by
signing up for the mailing list:
mailto:win32jabclient-request at theoretic.com?subject=subscribe (NOTE:
"subscribe" in the subject)

The (simple) webpage is at http://www.theoretic.com/win32jabclient

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