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Jabby is a platform-independent Jabber client written in Python and under GPL license

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 326K Developer: Paul Bukowski

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Jabby is a platform-independent Jabber client written in Python
and under GPL license. There are currently two versions maintained:

wxJabby is based on wxWidgets (formerly wxWindows)
qtJabby is based on Qt


Both have similiar functionality (although there are some differences).
Jabby is using slightly modified version of jabberpy library
(http://jabberpy.sf.net). As for now, only wxJabby can be run on
different than *nix platform (tested only with Windows). The heart
of the project is JabberStuff.py - a set of functions needed to comunicate
with jabber server through jabberpy. Both versions have similiar design, which
makes it easy to browse and understand code.

History:

The project has been started in December 2003 as our project for school.
Before writing first lines of code there was almosc 2-week discussion
on what programming language should be used and what it should look like.

Installation:

Just copy whole directory to anywhere you want and run(You can omit all .py files except of Jabber.py)

Miscellaneous:

1.When you receive a message from an unknown contact, the contact will be placed
in the 'Unspecified' group. To authorize it, simply click with right button mouse on
it, choose Authorization -> Resend authorization

Requirements:
Python (>=2.2)
PyQt (>=3.8)
python-xml2