Greetings; I've been trying to find a way to get around using MSN Messenger (absolutely required daily by my 12 year old) and, frustrated with the state of the various Jabber offerings that I could try to kludge together (Java apps that require Java 2, Mac apps that seem to have been abandoned in mid development, web-based applets that crash my browsers) I'm looking at two possible starting points; Jarl[1], a Perl/Tk application and the Net::Jabber module[2], both developed by Ryan Eatmon. I'd like to use one of these to build a simple chat client that runs on macos 8.1 and MacPerl and speaks to MSN Messenger.
Does anyone have any experience with Jabber and MacPerl? I'm enough of a newbie to not fear the massive undertaking that this seems to require, but have enough sense to know that I'd better check with my betters first ;-> Any advice is welcome. tia Bill [1] http://jarl.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Net-Jabber
