[General] School project using qTox
Thibault Lemaire
thibault.lemaire at supinfo.com
Thu Mar 9 19:27:17 UTC 2017
Hello,
We're a team of 6 students working on a school project and we would like
to know some specifics about the inner workings of tox/qTox.
*About the project :*
It is an open subject which goal is to put us in a real world situation
of software development. The context is the following : "You have been
hired to build and design a complete multi-platform messaging system
just like Skype or Slack".
There is of course a part describing the features the application should
have, but also a part describing a "Support Architecture" of redundant
servers and backup servers.
It is the opportunity for us to combine our programming as well as our
server managing skills.
*The question :*
So, as I already knew about tox and qTox I suggested we could use it as
a work-base. But what about the server architecture?
Therefore, here is our very basic question :
/Can qTox be adapted to fit a server/client architecture? And if yes,
how much work would that imply?
/We simply wanted the opinion of experts on the matter so we can decide
if it's a viable option before diving into the specs and actually do the
refactoring.
Of course we already took a quick look around in the code, and our
feeling currently is that one would only need to modify the toxcore
library for that, leaving the qTox client unaffected in it's structure.
But that arises a second question : can the toxcore library be easily
bended into a server/client architecture or should we rather make our
own networking library?
Thank you very much for your time, and thank you for the effort you put
into tox and qTox.
Peter Aubry-Walker,
Paul Arcari,
Axel Coche,
Paul Destour,
Loïc Lebon,
Thibault Lemaire,
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