Re: [Xournal-devel] developer consensus on XMPP library

[Matthew C. <ta...@gm...>]

The documentation wasn't really great. It exists, but it's kind of
patchwork, and not up to date as far as I could tell.

Matt

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Bob McElrath <bo...@mc...> wrote:

> Why not libpurple?
>
> http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/WhatIsLibpurple
>
> Matthew Chan [ta...@gm...] wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm making good progress into implementing the collab features (the
> messaging
> > class is finished). I'd like to implement the XMPP backend, but I need
> some
> > community consensus first.
> >
> > I've put about a day and a half into using Gloox, but the documentation
> is poor
> > (examples out of date), and community support is worse. Also, it appears
> the
> > code has not been developed since 2009. It does appear stable though.
> >
> > I've looked into other options, and one promising candidate seems to be
> the
> > Swiften library. It's multiplatform and actively developed. It's only
> been
> > public for a short while (May2010), but it was developed for awhile
> privately
> > and released when the author felt it was ready. The documentation is
> pristine
> > as well. It has ample implementation examples and also is doxygen
> documented.
> >
> > The only (significant?) downside I am aware of with the Swiften library
> is that
> > it's not packaged in any distribution yet. If we were to depend on this
> lib for
> > collab features, someone would also need to package the Swiften library
> in the
> > repos of every distro we would want it to be included in. This isn't a
> trivial
> > effort, but the Swiften lib is definitely better developed than a lot of
> other
> > projects I have seen, which facilitates packaging. Also, given the
> popularity
> > of the xournal project, I'm sure that someone would be willing to package
> the
> > lib into the repos. This would probably increase the amount of time it
> takes to
> > have our code included in the repos.
> >
> > Is everyone ok with this trade-off? I'm really at my limits with the
> gloox
> > library. I can't even get it to connect to a public XMPP server since
> it's so
> > poorly documented.
> >
> > Matt
> >
> >
>
> >
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