On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Werner Thie <wt...@thiengineering.ch> wrote: > Hi > > Although I'mm using twisted/nevow now for more than three years it was > only recently that I felt the need to look into the words section of > twisted. After googling 'python xmpp server' I found two projects aiming > at writing an xmpp server in python, namely pjabberd (non twisted) and > pretzel. > > Checking out their code via SVN shows an empty pretzel project and after > some digging I was able to locate some code snippets, but not in an > usable state. pjabberd checks out ok, also seems to run and is able and > ready to accept handlers. I also found a very old post dating back to > 2005 where an effort to write a twisted XMPP server was mentioned. > > http://twistedmatrix.com/pipermail/twisted-python/2005-July/011009.html > > Being new in the XMPP world I ask myself and now the group, how would > you tackle the problem of a twisted based XMPP server. Is there really > only the Java breed of servers like OpenFire, Tigase or Erlang/Lua based > stuff like ejabberd/Prosody available or am I simply blind. > > Thanks for enlightening me, Werner
As someone who has recently started heavily using Twisted-based XMPP technologies, I honestly don't see a big reason to have an XMPP server written using Twisted. I don't know what kind of use cases there are for it, but I don't think it would solve any problems for me. It seems it's possible to do anything interesting by just using regular old XMPP clients or External Components (all written using Twisted-based XMPP tech such as twisted.words, Wokkel, Idavoll, or what have you). The XMPP server is pretty much interchangeable. And I wouldn't want to create a project to compete with ejabberd without a very good reason :-) -- Christopher Armstrong http://radix.twistedmatrix.com/ http://planet-if.com/ _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
