[Gossip-dev] Re: [Telepathy] Telepathy Status

[Dafydd Harries]

Ar 12/10/2006 am 11:03, ysgrifennodd Mikael Hallendal:
> Martyn Russell wrote:
> 
> > So yes, 6 months isn't long enough and even at the rate of knots we are
> > going now with all the patches Xavier and Eitan are writing, I still
> > don't think that Telepathy will be feature rich and stable enough to
> > replace what we currently have in Gossip in 6 months time - perhaps I
> > will be wrong, but we certainly won't have time to implement the UI in
> > Gossip in that time frame.
> 
> It could also be worth mentioning that reviewing whether to make a
> switch to Telepathy or not will also add to the time. Especially since
> Telepathy/Gabble is currently lacking several features that needs to be
> in place to even consider making a switch.
> 
> I'm also not sure how well we will be able to implement specific JEPs or
> own enhancements over Jabber through Telepathy?
> 
> Is there a way to pass/read unfiltered jabber XML through Telepathy. If
> not, is it possible to just use Telepathy for MSN/ICQ what-not and
> continue using our own implementation of Jabber.

We do not currently provide this functionality.

If there is functionality that the XMPP connection manager doesn't support, we
would encourage developers to add that support to the connection manager
so that all clients can use it rather than adding support for protocol
features in the client.

(Developers accustomed to Gossip should find Gabble quite pleasant to work
with: it's very readable glib-based code and even uses Loudmouth. :))

It is possible for connection managers to provide non-standard interfaces, but
we encourage people to avoid creating protocol-specific interfaces where
possible.

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Dafydd