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