RE: [PEAR-DEV] possible (real) Net_ICQ/AIM/OSCAR pear package (?)

On 10 Aug 2003 at 3:40, daniel @ swn wrote: > > I would preffer to separate the packages. The goals for an unified > > Net_IM are too big. IMHO each protocol should have its own package, > > developers, release cycle, doc, etc, and if there is people willing > > to create the abstraction package Net_IM, it would be another > > package too > > I fully agree with this. My code is there to provide communication > with the ICQ network and I don't think that it would be a good idea to > create a Net_IM package since there is no other protocol > implementation out there yet (and maybe will never be). In addition > protocols each have a unique structure so it would be very confusing > to read the code since there are different developers for each (...) > etc. I don't see any reason to do some work on a multiple protocol > implementation in Net_IM because there are no other protocols > supported than the one I am talking about. I even don't have a clue > about creating Net_IM as abstraction layer - since you have to decide > which protocol you are going to use it is a good idea to sepperate the > packages. "Net_ICQ" seems to be the best matching name because the > class is intended to communicate with ICQ. Net_Oscar would mean that > there is support for AIM too but in fact it is very limited to basic > features and not intended. About Net_IM as an abstraction: As said the Miranda-messenger (open- source; miranda-im.org) and maybe some other messengers too already have implementations for other protocols. The easiest in my eyes is Jabber, since it has an open design and is based on XML-messages. So why do you think that there will be never-ever any more IM- implementation? From the abstraction-layer I would expect to be able to $im->login($user,$pw); $im->sendMessage($receiver,"Hello Paul."); $im->logout(); or similar things. And to my understanding this should be possible with almost every IM-network out there :-) For sure, if you want all features (file-transfers, chat-windows, ...) you need to use Net_Oscar e.g. directly. Just my 2 cents. Stefan