[jdev] RendezVous / Bonjour / ZeroConf chatting

[Tijl Houtbeckers]

On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 21:19:37 +0200, Sander Devrieze  
<s.devrieze at pandora.be> wrote:

> Op maandag 4 juli 2005 13:16, schreef Tijl Houtbeckers:
>> There's a third approach, which is a bit easier than you propose. That  
>> is
>> writing a normal jabber component, and a little demon on your computer
>> that connects to it. I say this because writing a "tiny" server would
>> probably take up the most time in your proposal,
>
> I think the tiny server approach has still more advantages. It would be
> extremely cool to use the py*transports (PyMSNt, PyAIMt,..) on localhost  
> by
> using a small XMPP server in Python for example. In this way Jabber  
> clients
> can start competing with multi-protocol clients like GAIM, Kopete,...  
> (as the
> same features will become possible) and more folks will join the Jabber
> community.

Nothing to stop you from running a tiny server with a zeroconf component  
is there? :)