Compact Framework

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Is there any plans for this to get ported to the Compact Framework?

Windows Mobile has some pretty pittiful Jabber clients currently and I
would like to develop one. I would really like to leverage the Stream
Compression JEP for data plan limitations in some countries.

I could only find 1 library available for the CF but its licensing is
very restrictive. You can't even use it without GPL'ing your whole
application even though the application intends to be completely free
of charge.

Any insight would be great :)

Thanks and take care.

[Kelly]

So we have done a first rough port of jabber.net to NETCF20.

We created a VS 2008 solution (VS 2008 supports both NETCF20 and
NETCF35 so I thought this was a good choice) and we defined the
NETCF20 directive so that we can better chunk out / chunk in Compact
Framework capabilties as we go along.

We have also defined many of the other disabling directives like
NO_COMPRESSION, NO_SSL, OLD_FRAMEWORK (I think that was it) etc.

I would say its a pretty rough port by disabling a bunch of code. But
we have it logging in as Plain Text currently and things seem to be
working although not a ton of extensive testing as of yet.

We would like to contribute this back to jabber-net so others can
benefit but we have a few questions:

1. For porting simplicity we didn't want to #if !NETCF20 a ton of
attributes all over the library as the source would get VERY ugly in a
hurry so we carried across many Mono attributes and placed them in a
folder structure like System\ComponentModel etc. Is this fine for you
guys if we include Mono sources for stubbing out these things?

2. Enabling TLS / OR Compression would be very ideal for the CF
because data plans cost money and compression of some sort is
important. TLS would be ideal because I think it includes encryption &
compression correct?

3. How can we formally introduce a patch for integration? I've never
done one before :)

I hope some people here are excited for jabber.net on the CF I know we
are!

[Kelly]

Is this not something that should be contributed back?