On 5 March 2016 at 15:57, Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mars-attacks.org> wrote:

On Sat, 05 Mar 2016, Alex Mourtziapis wrote:

>> HI,
>>
>> My name is Alex and I am looking forward in collaborating with you.

Hi!

>>
>> I am particularly interested in working for Tor messenger but sadly things
>> seemed
>> a little unclear to me and the existing code here [1] didnt help me at all.
>> If I got it right you want the messenger to be written in Node.js and use
>> a lib like nw.js or electron to package and distribute it. Am I looking at
>> the wrong direction?

> There is no plan to rewrite it in Node.js. Tor Messenger is based on
> Instantbird (which is based on Mozilla Gecko) on which we add some
> patches and extensions for OTR and Tor.

Got it, just read a blog post you have written about Tor Messenger.

> [1] https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-messenger-build.git

> This repository contains the scripts to download all components, patch
> them and build everything in a reproducible way.

I ll have a look at the code and who knows I might learn something. ;)