Hi there, All these messages make me feel a little oppressed. Did you ever used a LAN chat app ? You run it, et voilà. You don't have to give a user name (even if you don't connect to a server), you don't need to have contacts- you can see all connected people on the LAN, there is a main chat room, you can leave a persistent message on a messageboard... Try BorgChat (only for windows), you will have my point of view.
Unfortunately, I can't try iChat nor Adium because I don't use a Mac. Trillian and google talk can do this, but they are not open source, so I want to pay my tribute to the community with an open source lan dedicated chat app. I just wanted to know if there's a standard part of jabber that was made for this kind of software. That's all. Never mind. Thanks for all the explanation & details, I tried a python implementation of zeroconf, it's really good. The ivy bus was especially designed for delivering messages (using regular expressions) in a network to whoever whant them, so you don't have to discover and memorize peers (I'm referring to zeroconf as I understood it). Regards, Mehdi > > What do you think of ivy bus ? Isn't it more high level than JDNS or > > zeroconf ? > > Never heard of ivy bus. And i was referring to JDNS as a library to implement > Zeroconf chatting in. JDNS implements mDNS, which is what zeroconf uses. > The plan is to use JDNS in Psi in the near future. After that, Psi can > be extended to implement Zeroconf chatting. > > > if iChat, Trillian & other can do it, LAN chat is a bit different from > > IM. > > Not really. The only difference is that the user will have some features > unavailable (server config, add to roster, ...). Apart from that, it's the > same from the user's point of view: contacts come online in your contact > list, you open chats with them, send files to them, do groupchats with > them, ... > > cheers, > Remko >
