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On Saturday 12 April 2008, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: |
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> A user recently filled bug #216300 |
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> (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216300) which is about changing |
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> |
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> jabber USE flag to xmpp. Here is user's comment: |
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> > Is it another reason than legacy reasons that named the USE-flag |
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> > "jabber"? Since 2007 XMPP has been the name of the standard and |
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> > documentations (including the release notes [1]) mostly refers to XMPP. |
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> > The most other programs does the same (also loudmouth, used by abiword, |
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> > refers to itself as a XMPP library). |
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> > This I think can make it somewhat confusing for people that do not know |
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> > that jabber and XMPP is (at least in this context) the same thing. |
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> I thought it would be better handled on the mailing list and would like |
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> to hear from your opinions. |
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doing a global change from "jabber" to "xmpp" sounds sane. just put in the |
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use.desc description for xmpp something like "(used to be called jabber)" and |
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things should be peachy. |
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-mike |