[Pythoncard-users] Jabber and PythonCard

[Kevin A. <al...@se...>]

Last week, jabberpy 0.2 was announced
http://jabberpy.sourceforge.net/

Yesterday, Roman asked about threading and PythonCard and today I saw this
nice page covering info for writing a Jabber client.

The Jabber Client Developer's Cheat Sheet
http://homepage.mac.com/jens/Jabber/JabberClientCheatSheet.html

This got me thinking about Jabber and PythonCard. Writing a basic Jabber
client in PythonCard has been one of the tests in my mind since we started
the list. Jabber is most typically used as an instant messaging client and
Jabber servers can act as gateways to the most popular instant messaging
services: AOL, ICQ, Yahoo, and MSN; a large number of other transports are
also supported, see http://www.jabber.org/?oid=72. Jabber is also an
architecture and platform for handling presence management and distributing
XML packets. The short story is that Jabber is good stuff. For more info,
check out http://www.jabber.org/

A lot of the components for doing a client with PythonCard are already in
place. I probably won't commit any serious thought and effort to a
PythonCard-based Jabber client for a while, but if someone else wants to
start investigating, it would be a great topic for list discussion because
it will expose a lot of issues with the framework.

ka