Re: Status

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

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On Sunday 18 November 2001 04:40 pm, Neil Stevens wrote:
> So, how *are* things going on kjabber?
>
> Aside from the network code, how fully featured is the protcol side?

The code in cvs is not fully featured. It contains questionable support for
some of the iq namespaces.  Because I realized how ugly that code was, and
had a couple ideas on how to make it better, I am totally rewriting that
section.  Messages are simple to deal with, because we basicly format it and
send it to the UI.  Presence are also fairly simple; they have an added step
of updating the Roster with their availability. Presences are also the low
level way one adds contacts to one's roster, so some work has to be done
there too, but all of that should theoreticly be working now.  iq types are
where we need the big improvment.  Because there are lots of different
namespaces (functions) that can go under here we need to handle each in
different ways, which is what I am doing now.  As soon as I get the framework
fleshed out, I will update cvs and anyone who wants to make it more complete
can work on that.  A lot of it will just be formating the XML into some
appropriet Qt format, and signalling out.  I think this new way will also
make it easier for the inevitable increase in namespaces we will see as
jabber grows.  Expect the cvs update by Wednesday, 11/21.

Thanks in advance for the new folks who are interested in the project.  We
have two main areas of development: UI which Neil is handling, and KJabber,
which I am mainly doing.  Even if you are very interested in the UI, please
take a peak at kjabber and see if you can help out any there; we can't use
the UI untill we can actually connect to a server :)

Jim

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