On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 05:32:51PM +0000, Justin Mason mentioned:
> I'm not touching that with a bargepole until I see proof (ie screenshots
> ;).
Well, I've gotten the server & it's troddery compiled & installed. Not a
small job. I have the GNOME client compiled & running - seems fine.
Nothing works, though. Not sure why. Logs seem to be full of errors -
wrapped in XML. When my wetware is upgraded, and I can parse XML natively,
that'll be considered a good then. I'm downloading & compiling stuff from
CVS at the moment. If that works, I'll be happy.
> There's been a lot of talk about it, most recently the article at
> osopinion where the author seemed to be insisting that Jabber will be the
> next TCP/IP, effectively. Shades of the freedows project IMHO.
Could be. The idea is that you can let applications become jabber clients,
and message each other. However, that's very like a human interface to
something like CORBA. That said, wouldn't it be nice to be able to send
netscape on your home box a message "Save & shutdown", from another system.
Thing is, that because it's server-based, if it evolves much, it becomes
very like email...and then you wonder what's the poing.
Kate, beta testing on the bleeding edge...
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