[Adium-devl] Google Summer of Code: Bonjour Support

[Augie Fackler]

Erich,

You'll probably want to get something posted in the online form at  
Google's Summer of Code page shortly - the deadline for initial  
applications into that form is tomorrow unless I've failed at reading  
a calendar (again). You should still be able to revise the  
application after tomorrow (if I remember right), but if it's not in  
already, you'll be out of luck.

Augie Fackler

On Mar 23, 2007, at 10:09 AM, Erich Kreutzer wrote:

> Dear Adium Developers,
>
> 	My name is Erich Kreutzer and I am applying for Google Summer of
> Code.  I would like to work on a mac-specific project and Adium fits
> the bill quite nicely as I have used it for quite some time now.
> After looking through the suggested project proposals I was extremely
> interested in improving Bonjour instant messaging support.
> 	I have looked through trac and the libezv source code and have an
> idea what this would require.  However, I was perusing the adium-devl
> irc channel last night and there was discussion as to whether an
> update to libezv or transition to libgaim to handle Bonjour messaging
> would be better.  I am curious what the consensus on the idea is.
> 	From my brief research the benefit for updating libezv seems to be
> the ability to use the OS X Bonjour stack (according to evands on
> http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/5492 ).  In fact it seems Evan worked
> on converting libezv to use modern DNS calls about 4 months ago in
> the modernize_bonjour branch (http://trac.adiumx.com/browser/branches/
> modernize_bonjour).  Also since other Mac instant messaging clients
> currently use libezv any updates would also help other open source
> projects.
> 	On the other hand using libgaim to support Bonjour messaging would
> reduce the number of external library dependences and also possibly
> simplify the code for Bonjour support.  Implementing Bonjour support
> in libgaim was a past gaim summer of code project, however, I do not
> know the current state of project and libgaim currently uses howl for
> mdns support.  As I learned last night on irc Howl is no longer
> actively developed (confirmed at http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/
> howl/ ).
> 	Before I read the irc chat last night I had worked up a proposal
> which involved starting by fixing the outstanding bugs in libezv and
> Adium regarding Bonjour support.  Some of the more important bugs
> include the inability to send multiline messages, improper user
> status updates, incorrect reporting of current users online, and
> intermittent failure to send messages.  I also plan on continuing
> Evan's work on updating the DNS calls.  The major goal once I
> modernize libezv would be to add file transfer.  I have researched on
> a few of Apple's mailing lists ( http://lists.apple.com/archives/
> rendezvous-dev/2004/Feb/msg00044.html ) and found a post regarding
> how iChat(an early version, I don't know the exact version number)
> handles file transfer.  After I have completed the update to libezv
> and included file transfer I have a few ideas (starting
> infrastructure for audio/video chat over bonjour), however, I don't
> know how much time will remain.
> 	My big questions now are: should I alter my proposal to deal with
> adapting libgaim? And if updating libezv is still an option, are
> there any suggestions and or critiques to my ideas? Thank you all
> very much for the help.
>
> Sincerely,
> Erich Kreutzer
>
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