Best IDE for protocol plugin

Francois Botha igitur at email.com
Fri Oct 12 11:33:34 EDT 2007


Andreas Monitzer wrote:
> On Oct 12, 2007, at 16:53, Francois Botha wrote:
>
>> I would like to write a protocol plugin for MXit, a jabber based IM 
>> for which the client runs on cell phones.
>
> uh, why? As far as I can see, the point of MXit is to be able to talk 
> to regular IM (XMPP and MSN) from your cellphone. In what way would it 
> help to write a libpurple plugin for it?
>
> andy
>
>
MXit can connect to Jabber / MSN, but it has its own protocol too, which 
is way more popular.  As I said... it's based on jabber, but not compatible.

Check out http://www.defza.com/wordpress/communication/jabber/mxit/


Francois




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