David Waite wrote:Exactly - Rendezvous is just a (no longer used) trade name by Apple for zeroconf. Automatic discovery of a server is useful, but you still must have someone set up and administer a server before the chat clients would work - not exactly zeroconf.
That's why we made a CDROM called REPOS.
With the CDROM that we build, called Erlang REPOS, the server is zeroconf. Just put the CDROM in your harddrive (Windows, Linux, MacOS) and launch ejabberd. This is a one minute operation and client can then connect to the server and start chatting.
Nothing more to do. Nothing to install on the harddrive (However, the data are created in the temporary directory and reused on restart). No config file to deal with.
That might make it easy but its still besides the point as it still requires someone to put that CD into a machine (or to even know that CD exists let alone having that CD in the first place), the point of Rendezvous/ZeroConf chat is that you dont need a server in the first place full stop.
Richard
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