Dear All I am looking into using or developing a chat application for Django, for use in a social networking website based on the Pinax Django "distribution".
I have searched for django-based chat applications and found very little. Below I list briefly what I've found. Please could anyone let me know if I've missed any significant projects. There seem to be two very different kinds of technology being used in these projects. Some of the projects (eg django-chat) use the "same old" approach of repeatedly polling the server at regular intervals that lightweight chat apps in other languages use; some of the projects use the comet approach (eg with orbited). Is it worth using/developing a chat app using the old-fashioned approach? Is comet better for all circumstances? My instinct is to try and get django-chat on its feet: stable and documented. If it turns out that approach is not up to my needs, I'll turn to something using comet. Projects I've found: * django-chat http://code.google.com/p/django-chat/ little documentation, but seems to work (with a strange intermittent bug) * evserver http://code.google.com/p/evserver/ http://popcnt.org/2008/01/django-evserver-asynchronous-server-for.html http://popcnt.org/2007/12/asynchronous-django-responses-comet-yes.html evserver is * Various projects based on Orbited http://orbited.org/ - Orbited tutorials (http://orbited.org/wiki/Tutorials/) - willowchat (http://willowchat.org/) - Django, Comet and IRC client (http://www.rkblog.rk.edu.pl/w/p/ django-comet-and-irc-client/) includes a simple chat application: http://evserver.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/evserver/examples/django_chat/ * django-jchat http://code.google.com/p/django-jchat/ description, no documentation * djangochat http://github.com/dmm/djangochat/tree/master "Django-based jabber client app" no documentation Thanks and best wishes Ivan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
