[Sugar-devel] Thoughts on Collab

[Abhijit Patel]

On 25 July 2016 at 21:30, <sugar-devel-request at lists.sugarlabs.org> wrote:

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> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 08:38:21 +0200
> From: Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>
> To: Sam Parkinson <sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Thoughts on Collab
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> Hi, Sam
>
> I am still having a problem. You were referring to XMPP not avahi.
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> Tony
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> On 07/25/2016 01:03 AM, Sam Parkinson wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 9:35 PM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>
> > wrote:
> >> I'm sorry. I don't understand you. Currently collaboration in
> >> locations with a school server is done by ejabberd. This resulted
> >> from the fact that the original mesh and later ad hoc networks did
> >> not support the requirements of actual deployments. This means the
> >> software supports XMMP to connect with jabber servers.
> >
> > Avahi is *not* the mesh or adhoc network.
> >
> > Avahi broadcasts things over a local wifi network - one with routers
> > and stuff.  It doesn't do mesh or adhoc.
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> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 20:39:49 +1000
> From: Sam Parkinson <sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com>
> To: Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>
> Cc: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Thoughts on Collab
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> The current system is confusing.  It limits your discovery of peers -
> the neighbourhood view ether shows buddies from the school server OR
> buddies from avahi (local network)
>
> In the new system, we will avoid this limitation.  You will be able to
> see buddies on the schoolserver and avhai at the same time.  It will
> not make a difference from a user perspective.
>
> If this makes the local network collaboration more widely used, I'm
> excited about that.  Obviously, direct local communication has less
> latency than using a server.  Less latency is a better user experience!
>

I have just found python modules like socket[1]  for low level networking
interface and SocketServer[2] which simplifies the task of writing network
servers.

Could using these modules be a better option?

[1] https://docs.python.org/2/library/socket.html
[2] https://docs.python.org/2/library/socketserver.html

Thanks,
Abhijit

>
> Thanks,
> Sam
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>
> wrote:
> > Hi, Sam
> >
> > I am still having a problem. You were referring to XMPP not avahi.
> >
> > Tony
> >
> > On 07/25/2016 01:03 AM, Sam Parkinson wrote:
> >> On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 9:35 PM, Tony Anderson
> >> <tony_anderson at usa.net> wrote:
> >>> I'm sorry. I don't understand you. Currently collaboration in
> >>> locations with a school server is done by ejabberd. This resulted
> >>> from the fact that the original mesh and later ad hoc networks did
> >>> not support the requirements of actual deployments. This means the
> >>> software supports XMMP to connect with jabber servers.
> >>
> >> Avahi is *not* the mesh or adhoc network.
> >>
> >> Avahi broadcasts things over a local wifi network - one with routers
> >> and stuff.  It doesn't do mesh or adhoc.
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