Re: newbie, XMPP framework

[Frédéric LOUI]

> Hello,
Hello
 
> I'm new to GNUstep and I'd like to contribute. I'm teaching myself ObjC
> and GNUstep/Openstep/Cocoa. I'm interested in writing some software,
> although I'm not ready for anything too difficult. I have some experience
> in programming.
MMmmhhh ... That's GREAT ! 

> I'd like to write an Instant Messaging gnustep application. I noticed
> there's already Hydroxide but it only supports MSN and I don't believe
> it's maintained anymore. 
You can contact Yen-Ju Chen <yjchenx@hotmail.com> if you want a read/write cvs  
access to hydroxide cvs repository.

>I think Jabber/XMPP would be a good choice, but
> then there's a need for a XMPP framework (it's in the Framework Wishlist
> on the wiki). I noticed that Acid
> (http://www.jabberstudio.org/projects/acid/project/view.php) already
> exists, it's supposed to be for Mac OS X, and I don't know anything about
> its design or compatibility. It seems to have its own xml parsing and
> generation code.
 
> What is the best XML framework ?
> Renaissance and other apps like HelpViewer seems to use GSXML, but it only
> seems to do XML parsing, and I've read arguments about its design over
> this list. Is it ok to use the ED frameworks ? using them would make
> portability easier since they're available for Mac OS X.
I can't help you upon that subject... Stefan any idea ?
 
> Do you think the IM client should support other IM protocols (like Gaim
> does) or should it just let the server handle this through its gateways
> (like regular jabber clients do) ? 
I could be great if you could design you IM modular as much as possible.
Put plugin like GAIM. Each of them dedicated to a different protocol.
But of course it is more difficult... It depends on the time you can spend on 
that project...

>I think it would be easy to just have a
> Jabber bundle using the XMPP framework. and there could be other bundles
> handling other protocols.
It is a good start.

May I have a suggestion ? In one hand, linux community have GAIM as IM and in 
othet hand there is GNOMEMEETING ...
Why not just build a IM around a video conference tool ? 
Stefan, Fabien <fabien.vallon@fr.alcove.com> and I are working on project 
related to ImageApps

Recently, Björn Giesler <bjoern@giesler.de> provided us a video-4-linux and vfw 
based camera-class to be able to communicate with webcams and other 
framegrabbing cameras. 

You can find it at:
http://giesler.biz/bjoern/Downloads/VideoClasses.tar.gz

You can contact us if you need additional information related to the Video 
classes. We'll provide you all the info related to the points to improve the 
lib.(according to Björn)

Welcome to the wonderful land of GNUstep.
> thanks for reading.

Bgrds/Fred

> Pierre-Henri Quelen
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