Re: possible (real) Net_ICQ/AIM/OSCAR pear package (?)

> When I'd strongly vote against Net_ChatClient because this might lead > to confusion with Net_IRC or similar. Net_IM "might" be okay - but > maybe we should think of a somehow open structure? I think it should be named Net_ICQ because it is developed to communicate with the ICQ network. My code provides a very limited AIM support too (going online, receiving and sending messages) because both IM networks use the oscar protocol but it was not my intention to support AIM when I started to work on it. I did not know that it "just works" for both ;). > Would it be possible to build a Net_IM-package and also integrate > functionality to send to Jabber-servers etc.? Since the Jabber- > protocol is open an XML this shouldn't be of any problem. I just mean > ... like the Validate-class (Pierre knows what I mean :-)) - somethink > like a package for multiple Instant Messenger-protocols. The ICQ/AIM protocol is totally different from any other IM protocol. In my oppinion it would be better to cover the ICQ protocol only within this package. Its structure is very complex and there was/is much work to do to maintain it because of this - so I am not able to implement jabber, msn, yahoo etc. In fact I don't know any specification of these other IM procotols. btw. I am currently cleaning up my code to be able to show it to the world ;)