Jabber (was Re: [Twisted-Python] Closing Jabber connection)

[Christopher Zorn]

On 5/4/05, Christopher Armstrong <radeex at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/4/05, Ralph Meijer <twisted at ralphm.ik.nu> wrote:
> > I can see your point and understand that people thinking of Jabber
> > believe it must be in Words, but my initial remark on it not belonging
> > there has more to do with that most of the current code doesn't belong
> > where it is now.
> 
> In a puritanical "Each layer of abstraction should get its own
> subproject" view, you're right, but I think that we shouldn't add
> undue complexity to the project and confusion for people trying to
> understand Twisted by adding more projects when they're unnecessary.
> Therefore, I suggest keeping all of this stuff in twisted.words until
> it'd actually be useful to users (developers) to split off. i.e., when
> people start wanting to make apps based on XMPP that don't use any
> chat stuff.

FYI, all of my "jabber" based twisted apps besides punjab are NOT chat based. :)
And I would not consider idavoll "chat" either. 

> 
> Anyway, good luck with the project, and thanks for your work on it so far.
> 
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