Re: [Freecats-Dev] Is there any Software Architect aboard?

[Henri Chorand]

> I'm not sure I really want to step into the middle of the whole
> language war, and I'm definitely not applying for the position of
> chief architect, but I do have some more-or-less working code...

No language war here ;-)

For instance, the fact that I'm beginning to explore client interfaces with
tools that I might master in less time (hopefully) does not imply any strict
requirements for the server part.
And... wxGlade also works with Perl, so this should be enough to bury the
war axe.


> I'm currently in the process of splitting out my project (OOxlate) into
> separate server and client rpm packages for linux (following some very
> helpful suggestions by Marc Prior). This is taking a bit longer than I
> expected, since I've never packaged software with RPM before. I expect
> to get at least the server piece out sometime this week (unless of
> course somebody hires me in the meantime :) ). The OOo client piece
> will probably be another week to package.
>
> I realize this doesn't help the folks who only run windows, but the code
> should run under windows if anyone is interested in trying to put
> together a windows package (not my area of expertise; I don't have a
> windows box to test on).

Well, some of us, including me, have the Windows boxes, but not necessarily
the skills needed to make up a Windows package. Let us know when we can
begin testing.


> Hopefully at least the server will be useful to folks trying to write a
> client, since it's something to test against, even if it is written in
> perl :)

In order to achieve convergence quickly, I hope you can publish your API,
and I'll be glad to see (for my own's sake) if it's close to my proposal. I
would not mind replacing my suggestions with something coming from a real
piece of code.


Cheers,

Henri