[Galago-devel] Galago and traditional IM clients (replacing them)

[Christian Hammond]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 08:53:35PM -0500, Tom von Schwerdtner wrote:
> Greetings quiet ones,
> 
>   Please forgive me if this is a stupid question or if I'm spamming
> the wrong list.
> 
>   Say we wanted to make that pipe dream of an IM client that has/needs
> no buddy list.  All contacts are taken from e-d-s and presence is
> monitored by... well, Galago I assume.  What would it take to complete
> the puzzle?
> 
>   Any thoughts or a brief 10,000' view would be appreciated.

It's entirely possible and something I'm poking a bit on :) To
complete the puzzle, you need a nicely designed abstract interface to
the various protocols for IM services. You would also need a
communication API for sending/receiving messages, joining chats,
privacy, flexible account management with assignable data for each
account, and probably a few other things I'm not thinking of.

I'm working on such a framework, and would rather not get into it all
that much right now. In time, though, I'll make something public.

Christian
 
-- 
Christian Hammond         <>  The Galago Project
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