[Adium-devl] Bonjour networking (It's that time again, folks!)

[Andreas Monitzer]

On Feb 17, 2007, at 01:43, Phil Dokas wrote:

> On Feb 16, 2007, at 2:46 PM, disposable at infinitenexus.com wrote:
>
>> Other notes: for Bonjour, file transfer is what we specifically lack
>
> Here here!  That would be a wonderful addition to Adium and it's well
> sized for a summer coding project.

Well, if Bonjour networking (XEP-0174, http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/ 
xep-0174.html) would be implemented in libgaim, we would support all  
that already works on regular XMPP connections.

Since the SummerOfCode-wiki page is not a proper place for discussion  
this, I'd like to take that here:
Apple's Bonjour-implementation http://developer.apple.com/opensource/ 
internet/bonjour.html works fine on Mac OS X (obviously), Linux and  
Windows, so IMO it could be used inside libgaim. It's actually  
regarded as the most complete implementation of the mDNS spec in  
Linux and the only one for Windows, so that wouldn't leave non-Apple  
operating systems as second class citizens.

However, this would lead to Bonjour-networking being a SoC project  
for the gaim project rather than Adium.

andy