I thought about the conventional configuration script approach when designing Akka - and it's the one used in the original Acon anyway - but it's a Bad Idea. Akka has to run as daemon with a dynamic, adaptable configuration for a simple reason: when switching to an application to another, or to a console to another, or any combination of these, your needs as far as Akka's dealing with the console might vary greatly (i.e. you might have an application that you want to temporarily switch to an English only or Arabic only console, or that might need a temporary special behavior, etc.). A sighup/re-reading/reparsing of a configuration file is definitely not a good thing because you have no easy/clean way to keep the status of the parts that you don't want to change when doing such an update. Granted, there has been little use of all the features and different possible configurations of Akka til now as far as I am aware, but that's due more to the size of the Arab technical community than to the real use of Akka, which once used in a significant number of production environments would definitely require those features.
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Development Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Chahine M. HAMILA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Development Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 2:03 PM Subject: Re: Is Akka (cvs) working? > > Since I've seen this error (or a similar one) quite often, I think it would > > make users' life easier to remove at least the perl interfacing layer (of > > not the corba one too) and replace it with C client (and maybe a more common > > sockets layer), but I'm too lazy to go back on it. If you feel brave enough > > for the task, I can give you a hand to start up. > My plan was to remove the perl client all-together and switch to a more trivial > configuration file approach (search the archives, it is an old thread). Kuru > and I decided to go through a complete re-write (which we unfortunately > couldn't go through due to an emergency on kuru's side) based on another > project called "Farsi". We never got to that too :D > > > _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
