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Re: Embedded language support in LPub
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Wed, 9 Apr 2003 18:14:10 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Wayne Gramlich writes:
> No matter what stategy is taken, there needs to be a documentation
> effort to describe what features of LPub are going to be provided
> for extensibility.
Agreed. It does seem a bit silly to spend all this time discussing
languages and protocols when we don't even know what LPUB features
will be accessed by said languages and protocols.
> With regards to XML-RPC, it appears to require a connection set up
> and tear down for each command; hence, I doubt it is a very good
> match for LPub extensibility.
I'm not sure how you can have those doubts when we don't even know
what sort of features we're talking about. The connection latency
is tiny compared to a human being moving the mouse and clicking on
a button. It's nothing compared to a POV render.
> It is hard to get much simpler than send a command line followed
> by a new-line character and get a response back followed by another
> new line character. Yes, you have to document the command line
> format and response line format, but you have to provide documenation
> anyhow.
True. And I have to admit, it's nice to be able to telnet into a
server and type the commands by hand. But then you also have to
worry about error handling, parsing in different languages, and now
with everything connected to the internet, security is a big issue.
With XML-RPC you have many other people already doing the code to
handle that for you. Plus it's a thin enough layer that you can
still type the commands by hand if you want to.
Anyhow, it's just something to consider, so I thought I'd toss the
idea out there. As you said, the most important thing at this point
is to document the extensible features, and that's up to Kevin.
Don
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| (...) I've tried to outline some of the interface on (URL) think that both topics are relevent now. The protocol is easier to lock down than the extensibility, because that will be forever growing and changing. (...) Is anyone out there interested (...) (21 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) Don: No matter what stategy is taken, there needs to be a documentation effort to describe what features of LPub are going to be provided for extensibility. This is true irrespective of whether a particular scripting language is selected (e.g. (...) (21 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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