<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 02:49, Danielle Madeley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danielle.madeley@collabora.co.uk">danielle.madeley@collabora.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im"><br></div><div class="im"> > On a scale 1-10, how hard would it be to write a non-telepathy client<br> > with tubes? (10 being easiest)<br> <br> </div>Why would you do this? It kind of defeats the point of having Tubes if<br> you don't have connection sharing infrastructure.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Cross-platform compatibility.</div><div><br></div><div>Telepathy uses DBUS. While DBUS exists on many platforms, it does not exist "by default" on MacOS X or on Windows. Requiring user to install DBUS and Telepathy so they could play your game is not nice. </div> <div><br></div><div>On the other hand, having the prototype of network support developed initially on GNU/Linux using Telepathy, and later on adding Telepathy-less XMPP+connection support would be a great solution.</div> <div> <br></div><div>Really, getting connection established via Telepathy is great precisely because it's a connection sharing infrastructure; a game established through IM could go through Telepathy on platforms where it is available, and through a direct XMPP connection on platforms where it's not easily available.</div> <div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im"><br> > Do tubes on XMPP use jingle?<br> <br> </div>No, currently one of XEP-95, XEP-65 or XEP-47, but they could use Jingle<br> I believe.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I guess I have a lot of reading if I intend to understand how to develop cross-platform multiplayer support over XMPP :-)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">See above.</div>See above.<br>See above.</blockquote><div> </div><div>Thanks :-)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im"> > What is the best place to read about telepathy tubes protocol (the<br> > actual over-the-wire communications that take place to establish the<br> > tube)?<br> <br> </div><a href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/xmpp/tubes.html" target="_blank">http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/xmpp/tubes.html</a><br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>Skimming through this, it looks like I'll love XMPP.</div> <div><br></div><div>Danielle, thanks a lot!</div></div><br>-- <br>Regards,<br><br>Ivan Vučica <br><br>