Kevin Smith wrote:
On 16 Jun 2007, at 19:06, Andreas Monitzer wrote:I'm currently working on implementing XMPP features into libpurple. I've successfully implemented PEP and User Mood (XEP-0107).Great!Now I'm planning on XEP-0154 (User Profile) and XEP-0084 (User Avatar). Those protocols are still experimental, though. Is it wise to implement them right now? Why are they still experimental after 4 and 3 years of development respectively, are major changes expected?
No major changes are expected. They have not been high priorities. I agree with Kevin that it would be good to push the avatar spec to Draft. I'm less sure about profiles yet (see below).
Avatar would be good to implement, no question. That's not had implementations (until now) because previously it was pubsub (rather than pep), which some people had issues with and never implemented, and then because it was pep and there were no pep servers. Now there are both pep servers and clients, expect 84 to pop up places (like Psi).
Feedback would be appreciated from developers who have implemented this spec.
154's trickier. It exists because people have issue with vcard-temp, but despite this most people are happy with it and continue to use it.
Agreed. I have not seen a great deal of demand for this since people seem happy enough with vcard-temp. But vcard-temp has a lot of problems in theory and has been "temp" since 1999. Maybe it's time for something better. :)
Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre XMPP Standards Foundation http://www.xmpp.org/xsf/people/stpeter.shtml
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