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I'd like to eventually remove XMPP support from git-annex. --[[Joey]]
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The XMPP feature makes git-annex harder to build (needs a lot of C
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libraries), and is increasingly rarely used.
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For over a year, git-annex-shell has been able to notify clients when a
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change lands in a git repo on a ssh server. This notification is the main
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thing XMPP support was used for. Even users without a ssh server of their
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own don't need XMPP for this; the feature is supported by GitLab.com.
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The only other advantages to keeping XMPP support are:
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* Supports peer-to-peer git push over XMPP. Except, this hack has never
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worked very reliably, and exposes the git repo to the XMPP server,
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and needing an XMPP server is not a pure p2p solution anyway.
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* Friend discovery and easy sharing of git repo to friends.
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It would be nice if there were a pure P2P replacement for XMPP, like
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telehash. But, can't wait on that forever..
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XMPP support is already disabled by default in some builds of git-annex,
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notably the stack build. It's never worked on Windows.
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Next step is probably to default the flag to false by default,
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except for in a few builds like the Debian package and standalone builds.
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