[Pidgin] #9929: Client/Server model

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#9929: Client/Server model
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 Reporter:  xaero                  |        Owner:  rekkanoryo  
     Type:  enhancement            |       Status:  new         
Milestone:                         |    Component:  unclassified
  Version:  2.5.8                  |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:  'Client/Server model'  |  
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Comment(by deryni):

 This is not something we currently have plans to implement, however such a
 thing is entirely possible once someone determines what *exactly* the
 requirements are and then defines a protocol for it.

 Some of the design decisions involved are:
  * Are the pidgin-server's connections to the protocols persistent? That
 is do they exist regardless of whether a pidgin-client is connected to it.
  * Can multiple pidgin-clients be connected to a single pidgin-server at
 the same time? Either as the same or different users if your pidgin-server
 multiplexes users (not protocol accounts, but pidgin users).

 Depending on the choices to those there are potential follow up decisions
 that need to be made and the complexity and difficulty of the process will
 change dramatically with the different choices.

 It is worth noting that setting pidgin up to run as a simple XMPP server
 and running a pidgin plugin to de-multiplex messages/etc. received from
 the server and to multiplex messages/etc. sent to the server would likely
 be doable (probably not pleasant but doable).

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