On 06/13/2016 08:00 PM, Tobias Hunger wrote: > * There will always be 1 client talking to a server. > * Client/Server communicate using JSON messages
Yes. IIRC it is using stdin/stdout (I haven't checked the code), so limiting to one client is implicit. In this case, is it actually a daemon? It is not expected to outlive the client that started it. Perhaps we should consider a different name. One possible problem with using stdin/stdout is that when CMake runs the configuration the project code can do things like execute_process that may share the stdout with the child process. That may allow the child process to print content formatted to look like the protocol and trick the client. Ideally all output handling would avoid printing things to stdout in server/daemon mode, but that may take some effort to achieve. > What do you think? Does this make sense? It sounds fine to me. I'll state the caveat that I've had little experience in maintaining versioned protocols like this though. Hopefully others can review this too. On 06/14/2016 04:30 AM, Tobias Hunger wrote: > I think it would make perfect sense to ship the first cmake version with > included daemon-mode with a big, fat warning that the interfaces are not > finalized yet and will change in incompatible ways during the first release > cycle (or maybe two:-). Yes. Should we make the option to activate it different, and include "experimental" in its name? I think the idea is that no clients should be released that depend on the experimental behavior in CMake. Thanks, -Brad -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
