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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] xmpp vs. jabber USE flag
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:33:11
Message-Id: 200804121733.08402.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] xmpp vs. jabber USE flag by Gilles Dartiguelongue
1 On Saturday 12 April 2008, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote:
2 > A user recently filled bug #216300
3 > (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216300) which is about changing
4 >
5 > jabber USE flag to xmpp. Here is user's comment:
6 > > Is it another reason than legacy reasons that named the USE-flag
7 > > "jabber"? Since 2007 XMPP has been the name of the standard and
8 > > documentations (including the release notes [1]) mostly refers to XMPP.
9 > >
10 > > The most other programs does the same (also loudmouth, used by abiword,
11 > > refers to itself as a XMPP library).
12 > >
13 > > This I think can make it somewhat confusing for people that do not know
14 > > that jabber and XMPP is (at least in this context) the same thing.
15 >
16 > I thought it would be better handled on the mailing list and would like
17 > to hear from your opinions.
18
19 doing a global change from "jabber" to "xmpp" sounds sane. just put in the
20 use.desc description for xmpp something like "(used to be called jabber)" and
21 things should be peachy.
22 -mike

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