Hi there Matthew, >>> Prosody Server: http://prosody.im >>> >> Prosody looks pretty cool .... lua ... I don't REALLY like scripting >> languages, but at this point in time I'm close to trying anything >> really. Not sure I have any hair left after all the hair pulling I've >> been doing. >> >> > I started the Prosody project, and when I started I also had doubts > about using a "scripting language" for such a big project. Suffice to > say that over the past couple of years my doubts are well and truly > gone :) In fact I find the definition of "scripting language" rather > vague now. > >
Awesome! Yea, I agree, my fears of scripting languages have all started to fade ... they are so much easier and faster to debug. New languages I don't already use make me a bit nervous tho, but I'll just have to deal with that :) >> Our organization is very strongly skilled in C/C++, perl ... everything >> else is doable, but those are our strongest languages. I kinda liked >> jabberd2 for that, there is a jabberd-mod_perl .... so my eyes lightened up. >> >> > There's a Lua<->Perl bridge I've briefly looked at before as a way to > extend Prosody with Perl. Not being a Perl coder myself though I never > really took the thought as far as implementation, but I guess it would > only need someone with the know-how and motivation... > I'll definitely keep that in mind. >> I can't see that prosody uses SQL though, which is something we would >> REALLY like as it allows us to register users in various different ways >> and to migrate our current userbase over with zero impact. >> >> > Indeed, we're working on SQL support for 0.8 which we (really) hope > will be out by the end of this month. > I'll definitely check that out then :) >>> Spectrum Transports: http://spectrum.im >>> >>> > +1 to Arsimael's recommendation of Spectrum... although I don't use it > on my own server I know it's a healthy and actively-developed project > used by most Prosody users, and is the main reason Prosody doesn't > have any native transports already (why when there are good ones > already out there?). > Ah yea, I had still to visit that site ... that solves my gateway problem entirely. -N
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
