On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 14:45 -0500, Clark Williams wrote: > I can see I'm on the losing end of this argument. My first suggestion > would have been to use mmap to map the status file, but re-reading > Dan's email, my guess is that's not significantly different from > reading the file. And on the plus side, we can pass structured data > using XML-RPC, so that might "suck less" :). > > Let me just state two things and then I'll shut up on this issue: > > 1. I think that adding XML-RPC has great potential to be a Pandora's > Box, in terms of potential code bloat. We need to be on guard to > avoid the "Now that we have XML-RPC, let's add this feature!". Please > remember that the intent behind mock is to rebuild an SRPM inside a > chroot. Everything else is secondary. > > 2. We need to hear from Dan as to whether the likes the idea. My guess > is he will since plague already has XML-RPC elements. > > Clark "Back in my day we didn't need fancy XML-RPCs! We had DCE!" > Williams
Just for 2cents, I'd like to make sure we don't forget the other use cases of mock: 1. in brew 2. standalone with just a person in front of a terminal -sv -- Fedora-buildsys-list mailing list Fedora-buildsys-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-buildsys-list
