[Bug-gne]...

[Rob Scott]

>Any chance of my getting one crappy machine tho? If I
>could set one up as a web server in my room then I
>could work on the image stuff (ftp/upload to a
>directory, see that directory when u log in, select
>images, embed them in the article, hey presto!)
>properly :/

mmhmm, i spose just nick one from school, and see if they notice
(notice to other bug-gne users: i am not advocating theft or crime,
err... well its technically more like embeselment)

no dont worry : joking.
the machines are old and would be thrown out anyway.
the only reason they arent giving them to us is something
to do with health and safety....



>I was thinking about this api last night (grr it took
>my 4 hours to get to sleep!) and the thing is we'd
>need to work out all the standard operations we use in
>GNE, and what their associated input and returns
>should be. Bob, come roon here you lazy git and we can
>draw up a preliminary list... much easier than through
>email.

i suppose it would be more like a protocol than anything.
it would become quite useful, ie we could even begin using it
in gne cd's if we made them.   make a specialised server
which runs locally on the computer from the cd and rather than
fetching its query responses from a mysql server or webserver,
it would fetch them from the local (pdf?) files on the cd.
write a simple client, implementing the full api.

write a simple script for the plum user which will run the server, and run 
the client,
connecting to 127.0.0.1 etc...

for the advanced user, ie a school network admin (for a school that had no 
internet access in an area) could put the cd in a computer
and run the server, clients could connect to the computer across the lan 
and access the cd's contents.

...or a user that would prefer to get up to date gne stuff would perhaps 
run the client and connect to gne.org rather than 127.0.0.1

just another crazy application of my crazy idea.