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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: arch protocol, smart server,


From: Colin Walters
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: arch protocol, smart server,
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:28:51 -0500

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 10:53, Mirian Crzig Lennox wrote:
> address@hidden (Colin Walters) writes:
> >
> > I've been working on a "smart server" over the past few days.  There's a
> > lot to talk about, so I'll try to break it up into cleanly separated
> > parts.
> 
> Colin, I really like the direction you've taken here.  I think it
> makes a lot of sense to focus on a well-specified, robust wire
> protocol, and leave the backend filestore mechanism as a detail
> outside of Arch's concern. 

Yep, it gives us a lot of flexibility.

> Decoupling the two not only would allow more independent development
> along those lines, but raises the possibility of interesting
> compatibility layers and gateways (such as an archd which speaks
> cvspserver protocol, my own pet project).

Interesting.  Sounds fairly challenging.  How far along are you on this?

> I hope you won't mind a couple of nitpicks, as it took a tiny bit of
> sleuthing for me to get your sources:
> 
> > The tla implementation is here:
> > address@hidden/tla--archd--1.2
> >
> > The archd server is here:
> > address@hidden/tla--main--0
> 
> The latter should actually be: address@hidden/archd--main--0
> And the location of address@hidden is http://arch.verbum.org/arch

Yep, sorry :)

> You mention that your code is "ugly", but I found it readable enough,
> and I don't even know Python. :)

Oh, I think the Python is good too :)  I was referring to my tla
hacking...  You'd have to really try quite deliberately to make Python
ugly.

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