On 12/26/06, Magnus Henoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is only half true.  ejabberd has an excellent pubsub module

For the record, I totally agree with everything you said, I've just
seen how hard it it to implement stuff server/transport/component
side, and client side with a moving target/spec.

With some pubsub use cases finally being worked out (eg: PEP), there
will be a chance to actually implement some code server & client side,
that does user appreciable stuff (that's what sells MSNMSGR right?)

You wouldn't need a full pubsub server for rss, you _could_ simulate
the pubsub nodes, and populate them directly from the rss feeds - it
does mean you can't re-use the code which sucks, you also can't spread
the load, and/or aggregate multiple feed checkers onto a single pubsub
component.

I chatted briefly with the PyMSNt author about adding PEP support for
avatars, and by the sounds of it he thought it was a lot of work (i.e.
implementing _all_ the pubsub use cases), but if all you're doing is
avatars, then you only really need update notifications -
subscriptions, etc are moot, because they now follow presence
subscriptions. (hrm, I may add PEP avatars to PyYIMt to confirm this)

FYI: I really like the way rss.jabber.ru works at the moment: I can
create my own feeds, and subscribe to existing feeds.  New messages
are delivered as 'headline' events.  If the underlying protocol was
changed to pubsub+atom/rss/rdf (as long as the look-and-feel stayed
the same) then as a user a would be equally happy.  As an XMPP
developer I would be ecstatic :-)

(disclaimer: I haven't tried JabRSS, so I can't compare it to rss.jabber.ru)

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- Norman Rasmussen
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