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ryeguy
ryeguy

Reputation: 66891

Implementing chat in an application?

I'm making a game and I am using Python for the server side.

It would be fairly trivial to implement chat myself using Python - that's not my question.
My question is
I was just wondering if there were any pre-made chat servers or some kind of service that I would be able to implement inside of my game instead of rolling my own chat server?
Maybe like a different process I could run next to my game server process?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1056

Answers (3)

C-o-r-E
C-o-r-E

Reputation: 583

Maybe you could use IRC as a chat service, I know of irclib for python, its more of a client but in theory, you could use it to proxy another IRC server from the game server.

It's a little hackish, I just thought I'd mention it.

Upvotes: 1

Andrew Szeto
Andrew Szeto

Reputation: 1209

Honestly, I think it'd be best for you to roll your own and get it tightly integrated with your program. I know there's no sense in reinventing the wheel, but there are several advantages to doing so in your case: integration, learning, security, and simplicity.

Upvotes: 1

Lennart Koopmann
Lennart Koopmann

Reputation: 21079

I recommend using XMPP/Jabber. There are a lot of libraries for clients and servers in different languages. It's free/open source.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP

Upvotes: 10

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