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hannesm / jackline

minimalistic secure XMPP client in OCaml
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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IRC support #104

Open hannesm opened 8 years ago

hannesm commented 8 years ago

would be great... now that multi-user chat is there... maybe using https://github.com/johnelse/ocaml-irc-client is sensible?

sternenseemann commented 8 years ago

You mean IRC support within a jabber client?

I don't know if this is beyond scope. On the other hand that would mean hassle-free OTR for IRC queries…

hannesm commented 8 years ago

well, apart from XMPP I do use IRC (and am not too happy with my current client), and certainly abstracting over the underlying protocol would help to cleanup code..

sternenseemann commented 8 years ago

Why not then?

cfcs commented 8 years ago

Hm. I thought everyone was supposed to move to XMPP and just use IRC bridges/transports? :-(

On the other hand I don't see people moving away from IRC any time soon, so why not. Perhaps we should move to the clean React style first, or in the process of implementing this. IRC would also require more UI things, so having the new UI lib in place before spending time on this would also be good.

sternenseemann commented 8 years ago

I don't see why anybody would quit using IRC. It does not require an account and MUC is a hassle, also there's no such thing as bouncers or anything for XMPP MUC.

hannesm commented 8 years ago

@cfcs yep, definitively something for the rather far future (first, get the XMPP support up to speed)...

@lukasepple you don't need bouncers since XMPP provides server-side logging which a client can request..

sternenseemann commented 8 years ago

@hannesm all of the backlog? Found that feature implemented rather poorly in xmpp clients.

hannesm commented 8 years ago

I don't know server implementations, but at least in the "specification" there's no limit https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045.html#enter-managehistory

client implementation, such as jackline, are currently poor (jackline specifically because I rarely use multi-user chat and am not aware about which server supports which strategy; and what a user interface should be (automated pulling, manual request via command, ...) [unfortunately also currently busy with other things]