Comment Re:Recent problems with Gaim (Score 1) 301
I understand your concerns.
Jabber does have a different philosophy. The clients can just do the Jabber protocol. It is the server, that adds the capability to talk to other networks and it does that in quite some generic way.
So basically this makes it much easier to provide a client implementation.
Still it might be, that if you want to talk to people on the M$ network, that it is not the best solution for that. But for the original case, to connect developers working in different locations, it seems great to me and am using it every day just to do so.
As it is so easy to use and extend jabber we have lots of bots around that help us automate our tasks, e.g. we have a bot telling us when the build failed or succeeded. We're just talking about a handful of lines of code.
Jabber does have a different philosophy. The clients can just do the Jabber protocol. It is the server, that adds the capability to talk to other networks and it does that in quite some generic way.
So basically this makes it much easier to provide a client implementation.
Still it might be, that if you want to talk to people on the M$ network, that it is not the best solution for that. But for the original case, to connect developers working in different locations, it seems great to me and am using it every day just to do so.
As it is so easy to use and extend jabber we have lots of bots around that help us automate our tasks, e.g. we have a bot telling us when the build failed or succeeded. We're just talking about a handful of lines of code.
