XSF Discussion - 2020-12-05

Btw, support for XEP-393 is now in Converse.js core

Since last week IIRC but not yet released.

I for one am glad SamWhited made that XEP and it's a useful feature to have.

dwd, thanks for the minutes

jcbrand: oh cool, I can't wait to try it out!

Good job with converse.js by the way; I was playing around with it recently to try out your branch and it's gotten really nice

To try out your 393 branch before it was done to see how it handled the ambiguity in the spec I fixed recently, I mean.

SamWhited: thanks, IIRC the spec is now a little stricter than the code in Converse concerning word boundaries

https://cerdale.zash.se/upload/IOhpF_iSRV1BuiS_/02d1dd94-c59c-4fa4-ac89-a1b760f8c859.png

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jcbrand: I don't think it's any more strict, just fixes an ambiguity between an example and the text

https://wolthera.info/2020/12/xmpp-client-in-godot/ quite cool :)

Isn't Godot a game engine?

Yes

Well, I suppose one can use a game engine for the UI and do the dirty xml parts manually, or vice versa

Note the troubles they had with pre-resource binding iq stanzas. Let's abolish them!

Ge0rG, in-game chat is a thing. Might as well use XMPP for it :)

Aren't there, like, libraries for xmpp or something?

One might think so, but maybe not specifically for Godot?

I did a small XMPP client while a go for Godot too, there is nothing

There is the option of using an existing library in C++ for instance, but at that time that was quite tedious and not dev-friendly, not sure now how it is

It's indeed a game engine, but it may be used for other kind of software, there have been article on the subject. You get the nice export system with multiplateform for free (of well of course when it comes to mobile, it's not that simple), and neat features like live editing.

For a chat client, text support is not great, but they are working on it.

here is one of the article on the subject: https://medium.com/swlh/what-makes-godot-engine-great-for-advance-gui-applications-b1cfb941df3b

but indeed as Zash as mentioned, it's also super interesting to have XMPP in a game engine for… games