Re: [Gaim-devel] multi-level groups

[Nathan W. <fac...@fa...>]

Sebastian Noack wrote:
> Hi,
>
> few days ago, there was a discussion about multi-level groups on irc.
> Sean Egan said, that this wouldn't be possible, because of all
> protocolls, which are supporting groups, don't have the ability to
> store multiple levels of groups on the server. So I proposed to store
> the deeper intersection of hierarchical groups local. And sombody else
> proposed to provide mulit-level groups by this approach just for
> protocolls like irc which doesn't store groups on the server in any
> case.
>
> Now, I have another idea. Look at the implementation of directories in
> filesystems. There are no special inodes which represents directories.
> The directories are just part of the filenames. And actually I use
> this principle already within my groups in gaim. For example I hava a
> group "friends/geeks" and a group "friends/chicks". So we would be
> able to parse the string of the single groups for a certain seperator
> "/" for example and generate a group-hierachie out of it
Not to come down on either side of the issue, but Jabber does have a JEP 
for this:

http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0083.html