On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:31:36PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
>
> You use the RPC::Automagic module and pass it a RPC server/port/user
> name/password/whatever. From that point on it overloads the use keyword
> and anything you try and use it will actually connect to the RPC server
> and pass it all the parameters. Any modules you didn't want froma
> remote server you just use them before you use the RPC module. Or tell
> it to ignore those.
What a lovely idea!
You could also push a code-ref onto @INC, so that modules which
aren't found locally get used remotely. Probably less useful though,
because you'd want to know which modules
> It then use AUTOLOAD to intercept any calls to these modules that have
> been included remotley and passes those onto the remote server which
> executes them and then passes the results back.
So you'd serialise the whole object with every method call?
Could be rather slow...
A stateful server would definitely help here.
> There might be some problems with special cases (references?)
I don't see why.
File::Find might behave differently than it would locally though :-)
> I think too much Java has rotted my brain.
Ditto,
.robin.
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