On 17/04/13 03:36, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> Marcelo Galv?o Póvoa wrote:
>> The user-finding issue is a major one. We surely would not want to
>> connect to the other party by typing an IP/Port number. This would
>
> Well, it's the most straightforward way so we should at least allow it.
I share the view that 99% of the users would be behind NAT and/or firewalls,
making it impossible to connect directly. If we add a server/daemon program
to which LyX would connect (or if a Piding server or whatever else can be used)
then in those few cases in which one is directly reachable by IP/port, one
can always start such service on his/her own system...
> To have pidgin as prerequsity for colab editing sounds crazy. However,
> it might be that there are decent XMPP libraries around which could
> be used as an external library (for sure we don't want to implement
> and maintain pidgin-like machinery inside lyx codebase).
I agree the best thing would be to find some external library implementing
this users connectivity layer, but unfortunately I don't know much in this
specific area. Perhaps we could query Pidgin developers' list for an opinion.
T.
