Re: The messenger service is ready to use

[TheJackiMonster]

I think so too. Documentation is most important currently. Otherwise
it's not easily usable and I wouldn't mind others being able to review
or fix/improve the code.

BR
Jacki

On Sat, 2021-03-06 at 09:01 +0100, Schanzenbach, Martin wrote:
> Cool. Keep us updated.
> 
> I know it is a chore, but it would also be great to have
> documentation:
> 
> - As we discussed a small "howto" manual (can wait until CLI is
> "done" I guess)
> - Manpage (see doc/man)
> - Handbook entry (see doc/handbook)
> 
> BR
> Martin
> 
> > On 6. Mar 2021, at 02:22, TheJackiMonster <
> > thejackimonster@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > I just got the last pieces done to complete the core functionality
> > of
> > the messenger service I'm working on for a while. So it is updated
> > on
> > the main branch now and can be build by enabling the experimental
> > flag.
> > (I think it's best letting it experimental until a next major
> > release.)
> > 
> > The core functionality may work fine (at least from my perspective
> > of
> > testing) but there is still some optimization to be done. Also I
> > want
> > to add a proper CLI application and a GTK application which can be
> > used
> > conveniently.
> > 
> > However I will probably start writing down the manual now with
> > instructions to use the service and going over the code adding more
> > comments and improving documentation.
> > 
> > There also some features I want to include into a client-side-only
> > library to ease development of the applications. For example file
> > sharing works in theory but is not really automated yet.
> > 
> > Features which would be included as simple functions in the
> > library:
> > - Replying to selected messages
> > - Citing other messages
> > - Deleting messages
> > - Requesting messages
> > - Sharing files
> > - Downloading files
> > - Publishing a chatroom
> > - Searching for a public chatroom
> > - Opening a private chat
> > ~ Using a profile picture
> > - Sharing public files (uploads from FS)
> > 
> > The library will probably handle more advanced messages based on
> > JSON
> > or some similar text-based format to allow adding features more
> > dynamically. So the service itself does not have to be changed to
> > frequently.
> > 
> > Also with JSON messages it should be quite easy getting a good
> > interface done to web clients as well and the messages could
> > include
> > more meta-data for something like posts in social media or forums.
> > 
> > Happy hacking
> > Jacki
>

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