>>>>> "Leigh" == Leigh L Klotz, Jr WA5ZNU <[email protected]> writes:
Leigh> Actually, I think we should decouple the UI from the modem
Leigh> and services
Leigh> (logging, spotting, etc) set and use a protocol between
Leigh> them. I've done a
Leigh> couple of versions o f this in the past, and believe that an
Leigh> HTTP based approach
Leigh> is the right one now. (It's not quite what we have with
Leigh> XML-RPC, but similar.
Leigh> I'm not going to complain about something that works and is
Leigh> easy to author, and
Leigh> don't think we should move away from it, but it's not a good
Leigh> play for the
Leigh> interoperable web space and across different digimode
Leigh> application.) Right
Leigh> nowI'm working with a few other people who've had this same
Leigh> idea. The main
Leigh> reason I propose this is because it lets the modem and
Leigh> software-hard developers
Leigh> do their thing best, and lets the UI designers do what they
Leigh> do. So, instead of
Leigh> a "fork" of fldigi, if we had this type of approach, it'd be
Leigh> a new front-end
Leigh> client to fldigi.
Leigh> I realize this isn't an overnight change, and so I'm
Leigh> continuing to work on it
Leigh> in the background. A common control protocol would mean that
Leigh> front ends could
Leigh> work with multiple different programs, and I think it's quite
Leigh> likely that with
Leigh> or without us (us, me, fldigi, et al) this will come to pass anyway.
looks like some seeds of this idea are already present in the
flrig/fllog concepts.
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Pierfrancesco Caci, ik5pvx
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