Re: [circle] circle's old daemons : an essay on the separation between the gui and core....

[darkblood]

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On Mon, 19 May 2003, Thomas Voegtlin wrote:

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> >It'd also make it much easier to implement new interfaces, esp. ones
> written in something other than python. > yes, this is what I am
> currently doing with Mozilla. I added commands to the daemon, so that
> it can perform searches in circle and download files. I think it would
> be easy to use circled for all the operations that involve the
> hashtable.
> 
> So here is my proposal, if we want to separate gui and core of circle:
> 
> We could use circled and use the 'get' and 'search' commands I added
> to it. [and slightly modify them, because at this point they return
> html-formatted results. Html (or any other format) should be the
> business of the client...]

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I'm on a far off rontinent, well out of reach of the smacking that I would
otherwise probably recieve for suggesting this.  How hard would it be to
output XML to the socket, instead of HTML??  That way we do not incur the
ambiguities of HTML (does <H2>...</H2> mean the filename or its size??)  
and we are not locked into a particular pickling routine.  Which makes it
much easier for other apps to interoperate with circle.

- -- Pierre
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