On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 02:05:10 +0200, mame louk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi there,
All these messages make me feel a little oppressed.
What are you talking about? All the messages have been mostly about the
technical side of implementing things.
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.
You can build exactly the same with Jabber/Zeroconf, so I don't see your
problem.
Presumable you do ask the user to set a username.. (though I suppose you
could use the system name or something)
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.
Google Talk can do this? You sure?
Anyway, people pointed to Miranda IM, which is open source. (Windows only
though)
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.
The protocol is not documented quite that officially yet, but feel free to
go ahead with that.
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).
Ivybus does all this "underwater" too, but it's much more highlevel. You
can do the same with zeroconf, just need to build an application/protocol
layer on top of it. Jabber wouldn't be half bad for that. The problem
using Ivybus & Jabber together is they'll have somewhat overlapping
mechanisms. Of course, Ivybus is very robust (I believe it was developed
for Airtraffic control originally?) and you don't quickly replicate all
the work they've done. Then again we're chatting to people on a LAN, not
trying to land aircraft full of people..
