Gardner, I've been using jabber for an active development project using debian with python. Here's what Debian packages (testing), I use
jabber, jabber-muc, python2.3, python2.3-jabber, libxml2-python2.3, libxslt1-python2.3 Hope that helps. Craig On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 09:55 -0700, Gardner Pomper wrote: > Hi, > > I am starting a project which might benefit from using Jabber as an > inter-process communcations mechanism. I have been looking at books and > searching the web for a few days now and I can't quite sort out where to > start. My confusion is basically about whether I should use Jabberd 1.4 or > 2.0, and what client libraries will work with each. > > I believe that I am going to be making heavy use of chatrooms, so that a > human adminstrator can join each connection point between processes and look > at what is going on. The book I have (Jabber Developers Handbook) is written > based on jabberd 1.4, which seems to be fine, except that it is not clear > that the conference rooms work with that anymore. The links to mu-conference > on jabber.org don't seem to work, and the jabberd 1.4 page on > jabberstudio.org doesn't give a way to get mu-conference, except for the > windows cygwin download (i will be running on linux). Do chat rooms not work > on 1.4 anymore? Is there some other chat service I need instead of > mu-conference? > > I typically just get the latest version of whatever, to start with, so I was > looking at jabberd 2.0, but it isn't clear to me if I have to run mysql also. > What do I need for a jabberd 2.0 server (at minimum)? I am looking for > something which is reasonably easy to evaluate, to determine if jabber is > going to work for my project. > > On the client side, I am developing primarily in python. I have references > to jabberpy, but that page says the project is dead. Will it work with jabber > 2.0, or do I have to just use jabber 1.4 if I pick jabberpy? The other python > interfaces listed on jabber.org are PyXMPP (which has a broken link) , xmpppy > (is this the one to pick?) and twisted (which is too much to learn along with > everything else). > > If anyone can point me to a good chat room to ask questions, I would be VERY > appreciative. A 'how to get started' guide on a web site somewhere would also > be helpful, as would a book recommendation for jabberd 2.0 (if that is the > version I should be using). > > Thanks !! > > - Gardner > > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev > -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Craig Hollabaugh, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 970 325 0509 Author of Embedded Linux: Hardware, Software and Interfacing www.embeddedlinuxinterfacing.com _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev
