[JDEV] Re: Want to start/contribute to a win32 version BUT...

[aliban at gmx.net]

Hi,
there are many existing jabber projects already. maybe you can just 
base your 'modified' version on one of them.

Several of these win32 clients are non GPL like. That means you are 
allowed to make code changes (if you have a license) and then you do 
not have to make it public/opensource.

I recommend you to test the available clients (listed on jabber.org) 
out and the decide what kind of you would like. Consider that most 
clients can get adapted for your needs. Therefor you should have some 
code knowledge.

One of the available clients is my own: wxSkabber. It is c++ and 
designed to become basis for other clients (therefor it's not easy to 
use it. for jabberppl only ;)

Edrin


On 1 Jul 2003 at 11:51, Tim Anderson wrote:

> <quote>
> Unless you need any special delivery semantics you should be able to embed
> your custom namespace in <iq> or <message> tags, which will be passed to the
> server without any interference.
> </quote>
> 
> Oooh, this is sounding good. Luckily I'm not going to be stressing any
> server in the slightest so wedging jabberd/cygwin/whatever and gluing my
> stuff around it may be a good first step. If I get all concerned about
> performance I can mess about with the server from a win32 perspective - but
> for what I'm looking for this seems highly unlikely. Unfortunately the win32
> requirement is pretty much set in stone.
> 
> My application is basically a central state machine with about 15 objects,
> and simple minded queries from the clients. The framework is exactly like
> chat rooms with subscriptions/denials and some watered down status queries.
> I have a totally lame version of my ideas running kobbled together as a
> stripped down IRC server. This was done initially as an excersize with win32
> IO completion ports then mighty-morphin'-code-ranger'ed into this project.
> Uhm, don't tell the customer it was simply a prototype ;-) I figured since
> this worked OK and the basic IRC/chatroom premise also worked, I could
> simply expand jabber a little and get all those cool benifits of jabber on
> top of what I want to do. My contribution to jabber would be trying to nudge
> some win32-isms into it. <i>I didn't mean that in a <b>bad</b> way...</i>
> 
> Tim
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