[horde] A horde messenger Re: horde replacement

[Andreas Mauser]

Hi,

----- Nachricht von Ralf Lang <lang at b1-systems.de> ---------
   Datum: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:35:03 +0100
     Von: Ralf Lang <lang at b1-systems.de>
Betreff: [horde] A horde messenger Re:  horde replacement
      An: horde at lists.horde.org


>> By the way, Horde developers, I still miss the Horde messenger. You dont
>> want to implement a messenger in Horde, do you? I would really
>> appreciate that, even if you give us a beta.
>>
>
> What do you mean by messenger? Something like a chat application?
> I don't see that soon. I think there was some alpha in  
> horde3/incubator but I don't remember the name.

Yes, a small chat application inside Horde. There are some Groupware  
outside having such chat application and I miss such in Horde.

> In another language/framework/environment we used xmpp (jabber) for  
> debugging, as a part of a die handler and for certain types of alerts.
>
> I have looked around, there is only one PHP XMPP library I found and  
> it's been unmaintained for years. We probably would have to  
> implement parts of the protocol for one-shot jabber messages to  
> rooms or users. There is more stuff for IRC but it's also  
> unmaintained and mostly PHP4 stuff.

But wouldn't it be an easy task to implement e.g. some jabber or such  
into Horde? I mean, Horde is already there, so the base of all is  
already there, and the chat protocols are already there. It would be  
so practical just drop a message to someone else when one sees the  
other online.

> Sorry, I don't see this chat client coming in the near future but  
> maybe you want to wrap some java chat into a minimum horde app for  
> automatic auth. I could help with that.

I run a cgiirc in parallel but I dont know how to implement it into a  
Horde app. Also I think about when I open the cgiirc page its more or  
less a bigger page than I am used to from a chat client, you know, a  
small window with buddies in there.

Andreas