afaik, xmlrpc is a little bit slower, because it uses a pull mechanism. you send a request from a client to the server and that responds with data. i think just sending osc over udp is faster. don't know about securityissues... marius.
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > On Feb 11, 2008, at 9:43 AM, Pablo Martin wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> Sorry guys i didnt see this thread before... >> >> Hans-Christoph Steiner escribió: >>> By the way, is the Pablo Martin on the Apricot team caedes (who has >>> done some work with PDP)? >>> >>> >> Yeah :). Thats why there is so much interest in using pd (also we got >> some emails already about people )... as i'm talking about it with >> people. Of course there is a lot of concern about some stuff, as we >> have >> huge todolist already, which is why i started a thread this morning to >> try get some feedback. My main concern is i have some experience in >> controlling pd from some other programs (both games and vj tools) >> and i >> always wished to be able to control pd from program itself instead of >> its command line interface (which sucks :D), ie, use it as a real >> library. If people can answer my question and maybe even step >> forward to >> help (with the library thing), all the better. This is a great >> opportunity to do some cross publicizing of different tools. > > You might be interested in IEM's xmlrpc library for Pd. That will > give you an interface closer to a library. We could use this project > as an impetus to get iemxmlrpc into Pd-extended, if it isn't > already. Other options are OSC, and just using Pd messages over a > network socket (they are very simple format, anything ASCII ending > with a semi-colon and a carraige return). > > It would also be a useful test case for steering the build system > towards making custom distros. This would mean that Apricot could > easily use any Pd library that is included in Pd-extended, but we > could then strip out anything that isn't actually used. > > I'll be in Amsterdam from April 30th until May 7th ish, I could meet > up with you guys for some face time, if that's not too late. :) > > .hc > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---- > > There is no way to peace, peace is the way. -A.J. Muste > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
