Since quite the number of people in this community (hey, I'm new, give me a chance ;) aren't familiar with this concept, I've made a small wiki page defining it: http://xmppd.malkier.net/wiki/XmppdShellable.

On 1/31/06, Peter Saint-Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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I asked Eric that via IM today. :-)

He answered:

Eric Will: a lot of people buy shells just to run ircd
Eric Will: so it just installs in a single folder in say, ~/ircd/
Eric Will: and that folder has the etc/ and bin/ and such folders in it,
so it can all run as one user without special permissions

/psa

Justin Karneges wrote:
> Slightly off-topic, but what is a "shellable" jabber server?  I used to run
> jabberd from the shell, but maybe this is not what you mean. :)
>
> -Justin
>
> On Tuesday 31 January 2006 15:02, Eric Will wrote:
>> That's just based on the open tickets in trac. In reality there's still a
>> ways to go, depending on which route I take.
>>
>> A bunch of the developers from various libraries such as Net::XMPP and
>> XMPP4R have contacted me asking if I plan to use their libraries, and I
>> haven't decided yet. I mean absolutely no offense to the projects, it's
>> just that the major push for me to write my own is that I have a lot to
>> learn by doing it myself.
>>
>> On 1/31/06, Hal Rottenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
>>> On 1/31/06, Peter Saint-Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> I was just chatting with the developer of a new XMPP server being
>>>> written in Ruby. Check it out here:
>>> Looks like there's not a lot out there yet but it looks very
>>> interesting.  The roadmap says 30% done for the first alpha release.
>>> Maybe the author could guess how long that might take and let us know?
>

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