Re: NetBSD matrix client?

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

On Thu, 24 Nov 2022 14:47:31 -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost> writes:
> 
>> On 11/24/22 7:03 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> 
>>> See chat/element-web.
>> 
>> I did. From its name I figured it was something to run with a web server.
> 
> It is a client that runs in a browser, and the package contains the
> files to be served to the browser.

So I guessed right! At last, something to be proud of...
 
>> Looking at the package, neither DESCR, nor the Makefile, nor the PLIST
>> gives me the slightest idea what to do with the thing - no
>> dependencies, and a bunch of files dumped under
>> PREFIX/share/element-web.
> 
> [...] A fair point that upstream's documentation
> is not great, but it's sort of explained in the README at toplevel in
> their github source repo.

"All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at 
your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth 
years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint..."

I shouldn't have to look up in an upstream repo what a package does, 
should I? pkgsrc should aim higher than that, no doubt. But as I said,
 
>> Which is quite representative for the whole matrix experience, as far
>> as it's gone for me.
> 
> It is a little complicated.  I worked through setting up synapse as a
> homeserver.
> 
> Besides Element, I believe there are other clients.   gomuks is in
> pkgsrc.  There is also ement.el, for emacs.

I tried gomuks - the colours, which cannot be changed, are unusable 
outside of "dark mode". Upstream has a ticket on that 
<https://github.com/tulir/gomuks/issues/23> which hasn't gone anywhere 
in years.

> In pkgsrc there is py-matrix-nio and py-mautrix, which have various
> degrees of library support.

They *are* libraries, at least according to DESCR, not client 
applications.

> Maybe you can get the university to use XMPP instead.

They are sooo proud of their Matrix server, security and all... not 
going to happen. But I don't run Exchange nor an AD server, so I'm not 
sure I am missing much.  =8>

Cheerio,
Hauke

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