[Adium-devl] Adium 1.2.6 (and 1.3b6) XMPP problems - fixed

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Andreas Monitzer wrote:
> On Jul 03, 2008, at 05:41, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> 
>> We (the XMPP developer community) have been working hard to  
>> deprecate jabber:iq:version, mostly because it's evil to send out a  
>> version request to everyone in your contact list every time you log  
>> in (and the bigger the contact list, the greater the evil). The  
>> replacement technology is Entity Capabilities:
>>
>> http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0115.html
>>
>> I know that Tobias Markmann has been working on XEP-0115 support in  
>> libpurple, so hopefully the days of supporting jabber:iq:version in  
>> Adium and Pidgin may be numbered.
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> libpurple has been supporting entity capabilities for a while now,  
> although only the last non-hash-version right now. However, in my book  
> that's something completely different than jabber:iq:version. It's the  
> same as the CTCP VERSION request in IRC, it's a nice information to  
> display, but doesn't have any consequences for the client.

Agreed.

The nifty thing is, the latest iteration of the caps spec is designed to 
give you all the information you'd get from jabber:iq:version, without 
the flood of requests on login. Best of both worlds. :)

Peter

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