[jdev] Perl Net::XMPP::Roster functionality?

[Robin Redeker]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:07:47PM -0400, Eric Hacker wrote:
> On 9/14/07, Robin Redeker <elmex at x-paste.de> wrote:
> > I don't know about Net::XMPP, but I just wrote a simple script that
> > does exactly that for Net::XMPP2, you maybe want to try it, you can
> > find the script in the git repository for Net::XMPP2:
> 
> That sounds like good advice to me. Net::XMPP was abandoned by the
> original author. I currently maintain Net::XMPP but only because I got
> too dependent on it before some of the bugs came to light. There are
> bug fixes sent in by others that I have not had time to apply yet, and
> google compatibility is one of them.

The major drawback of Net::XMPP is that it implements Jabber protocols
from 2004 and older. Also the API isn't really non-blocking which can
make it harder to use it in an event based application.
(Threads in Perl is something I wouldn't want to use :)

The major drawback of Net::XMPP2 is that it is heavily event based
and enforces a event based/non-blocking API on you. (But of course
someone could write a blocking wrapper API with AnyEvent).

> The project that I needed Net::XMPP has been dormant for six months
> and I'm about to pick it back up, but I will be seriously looking at
> what it will take to use a different XMPP library.

:-)