Re: [JDEV] JabberBox => xrouter

["Corbett J. Klempay" <cklempay@chimera.acm.jhu.edu>]

I think it's a good idea...'xrouter' is a much more intuitive name, given
what the program actually does.  JabberBox might sound cooler, but I think
xrouter is the smarter choice :)  Good idea!

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On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Jeremie wrote:

> I'd like to know what everyone thinks about renaming JabberBox to
> "xrouter"?
> 
> For those that don't know exactly what JabberBox does, it's a simple XML
> based routing function that transfers chunks of XML data from one
> connection to another, and is at the heart of Jabber's networking.
> 
> It seems that the purpose JabberBox serves for Jabber is of value to other
> projects and outside of Jabber.  It wouldn't be to difficult to generalize
> it so that it can be used seperately from Jabber. The only visible changes
> would be the renaming, all the functionality is the same.  Beyond that,
> xrouter would probably grow into it's own mini-distribution with a usage
> guide, man page, and installation process.
> 
> Since it also is the main storage node for configuration data for
> transports, it could easily grow in the future to become a simple
> system-wide XML based "registry" for apps that use it, expanding the
> current one-way config data passing into a two-way storage process.  But
> that's not critical for Jabber and can be left for the future as the need
> presents itself.
> 
> If nobody is opposed to this I'd like to get things renamed before 0.6.
> 
> Jer
> 
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