It's Alive!

[Jim B. <Bla...@yi...>]

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Yes, that's right, the slumbering project has awakened and is running once 
again, for better or worse!  The cvs version of kjabber, libkit, and myplugin 
now compile and run with qt3/kde3 and kjabber.  One can even play around with 
the settings and whatnot.  However, merely attempting to get online freezes 
the program, so obviously a lot of work needs to be done.

Talking with Neil (correct me if I'm wrong), development will be two pronged. 
I will be focusing on getting KJabber to work, and possibly looking at 
expanding it.  Since jabberoo was primarily focused on chatting, and KJabber 
was modled after it, KJabber will have to become more robust to accomodate 
some of jabber's other features like browsing.  The other half of development 
will be concerned with overhauling (full rewrite?) libkit with two goals. 
First, splitting kitwindow into two logical components so that each handles 
one specific job.  Second, optimized use of the new stuff we have to work 
with: qt3, kde3, and kjabber. Already we have seen the disappearance of ilk 
like StringToQString, and I look forward to more changes.

So when this gets done, will anyone actually be able to use it?  Yes!  
Despite appearances when connecting to either jabber.org or jabber.com, the 
Agents that connect to other IM services work quite well.  This is because 
some (AOL comes to mind) are blocking jabber sites' IP addresses. However, I 
have set up a jabber server on my box (blackfoot.reshall.berkeley.edu) that 
communicates perfectly with AIM (I tested using a windows client), among 
others.  If you would like to be able to access it, I need to add your domain 
to hosts.allowed, so email me. This is only for testing, as the server will 
not be running 24/7 (or anything close to it), and I may need to 
delete/reinstall entire directory for testing purposes.

As always, help is appreciated if you are interested. Have a good week,

Jim
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