[Freedombox-discuss] prosody vs ejabberd

Simon Tennant (buddycloud) simon at buddycloud.com
Fri Sep 30 13:03:34 UTC 2011


Speaking to Prosody's documentation: http://prosody.im/doc/configure

- it's frigging awesome: clear, conscise, and easy to follow
- it's all in one place
- it's well maintained

Very nice work and one of the reasons why we recommend that buddycloud
admins setup on Prosody.

S.

On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:41:28 +0200, Mika Pflüger <debian at mikapflueger.de>
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:17:13 -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote:
>> I could use input from people who have *actually used* prosody and/or
>> ejabberd about your experiences and the resulting pros and cons of 
>> the
>> two daemons.
> 
> I have two points, which might or might not be important for the 
> freedombox:
> 1. ejabberd needs to be restarted when adding a new domain to serve. 
> This drops all
> current connections, which is annoying. Don't know if this hurts in a 
> freedombox
> setup.
> 2. prosody has less documentation, especially on somewhat special 
> (non-core)
> components.
> 
> To run prosody on squeeze, I had to make a local backport, as prosody 
> is a rapidly
> moving target and some rather important functionality (namely external 
> auth) is
> only available in newer versions than what is found in stable. But I 
> guess the
> freedombox is based on wheezy atm anyway.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mika
> 
> 
> 
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