Re: [jabber.el] Serverless (peer2peer) jabber sessions

[Magnus H. <ma...@fr...>]

Andrea Russo <ras...@sa...> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using jabber.el for some time now and I'm very happy with it!
>
> Many thanks to the developers for such a great tool.
>
> Following the jd...@ja... Mailing List I found a discussion about
> a serverless jabber messaging system [1].

This has been codified in http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0174.html .

> It would be very nice if jabber.el could do that.  I'm beginning to
> learn/use elisp, so I can't do it myself (for now :-)).
>
> I'm just asking if someone is interested in doing it or point me to
> useful resources on the web to start working on this.

That would be neat to have, but I can't see myself having time to hack
it in the foreseeable future... Jingle, PEP, file transfers, etc (what
did I miss?) seem more important to me.

That said, I'm trying to figure out how it would be designed... we'd
need a command line interface to mDNS tools.  We'd need server-side
sockets, which require Emacs 22.  Beyond that, it would just be a
matter of keeping track of which stanzas come from which connection,
and what connection to reply through...

That is, this could go hand in hand with support for multiple
accounts.  Some reducing of global variables, some elegant method of
choosing which account to use, and so on... so many projects, so
little time ;)

-- 
Magnus
JID: leg...@ja...