Matthias Berndt wrote:
Greetings,
some time ago the development of nALFS2 was mentioned on this list, but
it's silent since these days. Even the wiki semms to be lonly now.
I want to know what's going on with this idea?
Regards
Matthias Berndt
Matthias,
Thanks for your interest in alfs (was nALFS2). I read yours and
Jeremy's posts. The SRS is not designed to answer your questions. It
is designed to provide a framework for making those decisions.
Actually, the communications subsystem is an area we need to work on
first IMO. We need a modular system that can support a variety of
communication mechanisms. I was think of unix sockets for
localhost/single box client/server comm and then maybe a daemon of some
kind listening on a tcp port or something for simple secured network
comm (like a company intranet). We also need a secure remote comm
protocol for Internet based comm. I don't know anything about d-bus and
so cannot make a statement there. I just know that I want to be able to
run the alfs daemon on a minimal system to build a box out - like the
livecd. So the backend daemon needs as little add-on software as
possible. This is why Jeremy wants it in C.
If you want to plug in and "waste" some time as you put it, we could use
some help fleshing this out and getting the team to agree on it. We can
use the wiki for a lot of it and this list. I don't really think it
would take long. At the least we need a spec for the modules and then a
spec for how a unix sockets module would work and be implemented. Once
that is done, code away.
Mark - I saw you are back - want to help?
Thought?
James
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