[Telepathy] Telepathy Vs. XMPP Library

[Ivan Vučica]

Few things come to mind:
* You can get support for other protocols. If your users prefer MSN, you
might be able to satisfy them better.
* Better integration with other apps. Other apps can also use
telepathy/listen on DBUS and perhaps deliver notifications better suited for
the user's current DE.
* If you are developing a fullscreen app (for example, a game) your users
might be happy to have their Telepathy notifications pop up.

Downsides:
* If user does not have telepathy, he/she needs to get it and install it for
their OS. This may pull other dependencies.


I haven't yet tried writing an app either with some XMPP library nor with
Telepathy, so take my comments with a grain of salt.

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 22:47, Paddy Carman <paddy.carman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>     I'm planning to develop an application uses XMPP.  I would like to know
> the pros and cons of implementing my application using an XMPP library
> directly Vs. using Telepathy. I understand that if I use Telepathy I can
> later change the underlying XMPP connection manager implementation without
> changing my application. But does this benefit come at the cost of losing
> some XMPP functionality that I would've been able to use had I integrated my
> app. with an XMPP library directly?
>
> In other words, does Telepathy interface abstraction reduce any of the XMPP
> functionality that my app. could make use of (that would be provided by an
> XMPP library)?
>
> Thanks in advance for your expert comments!
>  Paddy
>
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Regards,

Ivan Vučica
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