what about using qxmpp? Thanks. akshay(aksnot)
On 20 April 2013 01:39, Akshay Nautiyal <nautiaks...@gmail.com> wrote: > hello everyone, > I have read the previous post but did not understand the need to use an > external library when we it is actually not tough to make a mechanism to > receive and parse data(document text) from scratch. > > cheers, > akshay nautiyal > > > On 20 April 2013 01:24, Tommaso Cucinotta <tomm...@lyx.org> wrote: > >> 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. >> >> >
