Re: GNUstep IM app

[Ian Jones]

Why not take on an existing objective C IM client?

Yen-Ju Chen has said on this list that he can nolonger maintain some of his 
applications and has put them up for people to takeover, this includes the 
Hydroxide MSN IM client. I'd like to see someone make something of it, I have 
looked at the source and it appears to be written in a way that would allow for 
easy extension to support other IM protocols. Currently it only does MSN but I 
think that is broken becaues of some changes microsoft did to prevent third 
party clients, I'm no expert on this stuff but from what I heard / saw it was 
functional and a good start.

http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/hydroxide/

Regards,

Ian

On 2003-12-03 14:12:46 +0000 Phillip Tamulonis <phtamulonis@hotmail.com> wrote:

> The frameworks/service controller behind Proteus, a great Mac OS X IM app 
> which supports all the major networks, have been opensourced.  It includes 
> sample code for an IM client.  There might be some Objective C++ issues in 
> porting.  Anyone want to take look?
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/imservices/
> 
> --pt
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm new to GNUstep and I'd like to contribute. I'm teaching myself ObjC
>> and GNUstep/Openstep/Cocoa. I'm interested in writing some software,
>> although I'm not ready for anything too difficult. I have some experience
>> in programming.
>> 
>> I'd like to write an Instant Messaging gnustep application. I noticed
>> there's already Hydroxide but it only supports MSN and I don't believe
>> it's maintained anymore. I think Jabber/XMPP would be a good choice, but
>> then there's a need for a XMPP framework (it's in the Framework Wishlist
>> on the wiki). I noticed that Acid
>> (http://www.jabberstudio.org/projects/acid/project/view.php) already
>> exists, it's supposed to be for Mac OS X, and I don't know anything about
>> its design or compatibility. It seems to have its own xml parsing and
>> generation code.
>> 
>> What is the best XML framework ?
>> Renaissance and other apps like HelpViewer seems to use GSXML, but it only
>> seems to do XML parsing, and I've read arguments about its design over
>> this list. Is it ok to use the ED frameworks ? using them would make
>> portability easier since they're available for Mac OS X.
>> 
>> Do you think the IM client should support other IM protocols (like Gaim
>> does) or should it just let the server handle this through its gateways
>> (like regular jabber clients do) ? I think it would be easy to just have a
>> Jabber bundle using the XMPP framework. and there could be other bundles
>> handling other protocols.
>> 
>> thanks for reading.
>> 
>> Pierre-Henri Quelen
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