Since quite the number of people in this community (hey, I'm new, give me a chance ;) aren't familiar with this concept, I've made a small wiki page defining it: <a href="http://xmppd.malkier.net/wiki/XmppdShellable">http://xmppd.malkier.net/wiki/XmppdShellable</a>. <div>On 1/31/06, Peter Saint-Andre <<a href="mailto:stpeter@jabber.org">stpeter@jabber.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I asked Eric that via IM today. :-) He answered: Eric Will: a lot of people buy shells just to run ircd Eric Will: so it just installs in a single folder in say, ~/ircd/ Eric Will: and that folder has the etc/ and bin/ and such folders in it, so it can all run as one user without special permissions /psa Justin Karneges wrote: > Slightly off-topic, but what is a "shellable" jabber server?  I used to run > jabberd from the shell, but maybe this is not what you mean. :) > > -Justin > > On Tuesday 31 January 2006 15:02, Eric Will wrote: >> That's just based on the open tickets in trac. In reality there's still a >> ways to go, depending on which route I take. >> >> A bunch of the developers from various libraries such as Net::XMPP and >> XMPP4R have contacted me asking if I plan to use their libraries, and I >> haven't decided yet. I mean absolutely no offense to the projects, it's >> just that the major push for me to write my own is that I have a lot to >> learn by doing it myself. >> >> On 1/31/06, Hal Rottenberg <<a href="mailto:halr9000@gmail.com">halr9000@gmail.com </a>> wrote: >>> On 1/31/06, Peter Saint-Andre <<a href="mailto:stpeter@jabber.org">stpeter@jabber.org</a>> wrote: >>>> I was just chatting with the developer of a new XMPP server being >>>> written in Ruby. Check it out here: >>> Looks like there's not a lot out there yet but it looks very >>> interesting.  The roadmap says 30% done for the first alpha release. >>> Maybe the author could guess how long that might take and let us know? > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - <a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org"> http://enigmail.mozdev.org</a> iD8DBQFD3/C1NF1RSzyt3NURAg8oAJ4vCpqnCucWGLzSoVumhr2L981b1ACeMaDi gDPDB//BGTzRQNuW0xWEMYI= =JYqf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- </blockquote></div> -- Eric Will -- <a href="http://www.ericw.org/">http://www.ericw.org/</a> <a href="mailto:xmpp:rakaur@malkier.net">xmpp:rakaur@malkier.net</a> mailto:<a href="mailto:rakaur@malkier.net">rakaur@malkier.net</a>