Naturally it would help if I finally got around to writing a developer guide! So I certainly don't blame Steven. Preparations are under way for working on more documentation.
Peter On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 05:19:43PM +0100, Richard Dobson wrote: > > As to making changes to the Jabber protocol, I don't understand all the > > concern. I agree that it is always best to try to work within a protocol, > > but I thought that part of the point of open source software is that you > > could modify it "willy nilly" to meet your own needs. Generally not > advised, > > but sometimes the only option. I don't think that Steven posted this as a > > protocol change, but simply as a solution to this problem for other people > > like myself trying to do the same thing. > > The point I think he was trying to make was that some of the suggested best > solutions were infact potensially dangerous to the rest of the community > because they broke the existing protocol rather than using extablished > methods of extension that would not have been any real problem. > > e.g. > > <presence type="promiscuous"/> > > This breaks existing protocol and could cause problems if they come into > contact with existing or future compliant implementations. > > <presence> > <promiscuous xmlns="http://yourwebsite.com/jabber/promiscuous"/> > </presence> > > Whereas this uses the standard method of protocol extension and should not > cause any problems when coming into contact with standard compliant > implementations. > > I think that the main problem is the seeming lack of caring and "willy > nilly" approach that was used with creating the modification, which could > cause problems for the greater Jabber community as a whole. If you work with > us not against us I doubt you will have any problems and more importantly > not cause the rest of us problems that we have to then clean up. > > Richard > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev -- Peter Saint-Andre Jabber Software Foundation http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.php _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
