I'm looking forward to GUI/core separation, and I have contributed some
ideas of a suitable XML structure for the UI<->core communication
protocol. Search the list if you're interested.

Since then I've been buried under work though, and I still can't offer
any help for the months to come. Feel free to pick up the thing and
elaborate on it if it seems suitable to you.

Cheers,

 
ko [junkpile at free dot fr on this platform]


On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 19:55, J�r�me Bouat wrote:
> Le jeu 05/06/2003 � 21:45, Mirar a �crit :
> > But a specialized binary protocol might be more efficient.
> The GUI must not depend on a language. A binary doesn't offers
> interoperability between languages. I mean it would be usefull if we
> choose a RPC standard which has links in most languages (mostly for data
> types conversions).
> 
> Is there any data structure exchanged with the GUI which has an unknown
> nested deep ?
> 
> If not we could use XML-RPC but the web site seems dead since last news
> date from 11/17/2002.
> 
> SOAP is maybe complex but seems more active. Do you know some good
> library for C ?
> 
> 
> Why not using CORBA ? It exists for years and is widly used. I mean it
> consumes less bandwidth than XML based RPC. The IDL interface
> specification file is maybe easier to read than a XML one. We could
> create fake classes (Node, Search, Download, Upload, DownloadSource,
> ...) which would have only class methods (~ module).
> 
> It seems that the GNOME project use the CORBA standard. Their ORB seems
> to be Orbit.
> See http://www.gnome.org/projects/ORBit2/ .
> What about the licence conflict since Orbit2 is released under LGPL/GPL
> ?
> 
> 
> J�r�me
> 
> 
> 
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