<br><br>On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Sebastian Silva <sebastian@fuentelibre.org> wrote:<br>
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<p>El 23/07/16 a las 19:36, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sam@sam.today">sam@sam.today</a> escribió:<br>
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<div>Avahi is very fun to work with:</div>
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<div> avahi-publish-service "Sam P"
"_org_sugarlabs_collab_user._tcp" 8080 "name=Sam P"
"color=#fff,#000" "other_metadata=other_value"</div>
<div> avahi-discover</div>
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<div>All of the backends could give us an ip and a port to reach
the other person. For the avahi backend, this would be a direct
connection to the other buddy. For the schoolserver, it would
be proxied through the schoolserver.</div>
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<div>I'd love to hear your thoughts on the other problems, and on
this problem to.</div>
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It sounds like you have your mind set on a solution already, from
the ground up. That's fine if you are willing to tackle the task.<br>
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I'm more of a re-user.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1 for re-using. However, we need to ensure that when we re-use, we re-use something that is good quality and that is a good fit for sugar. Telepathy has become a little bit of a bad fit for sugar.</div><div><br></div><div>My attitude now is to a) not use telepathy, and b) not make the same mistake again.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br>
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I always thought XMPP was a good idea. Have you tried <i>gajim</i>?<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gajim.org/">https://gajim.org/</a><br>
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It is an XMPP client that is allso P2P and fully written in
Python/GTK.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I've never herd of it :) I suppose I will look into it.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br>
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Perhaps some of its code can be reused, for F1 view and other goals.
I think a solution on top of this could even be made backward
compatible with current Sugar (for the most part).</blockquote><div><br></div><div>How? Who understands how the current code works? Can we pass xmpp channels from gijam's xmpp library to telepathy?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Sam</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br>
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I'm all for a custom server component, perhaps it could be built on
top of this.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Sebastian<br>
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