-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Philip Rosedale wrote: > Looks like DBus is TCP based - that still seems unneeded, I think we > should use UDP, what think?
UDP could work, however I do prefer a standard protocol over yet another homegrown one. TCP is not a big issue in this case - most common use case is a local server connecting to local viewer, so the latency reduction in the case of packet loss compared to TCP is going to be a non-issue. UDP will have little advantage here. On the other hand, with DBus you get lot of advantages with being able to script the viewer and call the APIs from other tools. With pure UDP you would have to redo the whole protocol implementation each time. Actually DBus uses Unix domain sockets, TCP and can use named pipes. Future versions will probably use also shared memory as a transport. However, DBus is intended for desktop scripting. That will work for an occasional function call to trigger an animation or set the camera. On the other hand, if you are anticipating streaming gobs of data (e.g. live position tracking from camera, 30 times/second), it is likely not the best choice - there I would go for VRPN (that is UDP-based). Regards, Jan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mandriva - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFKF0TWn11XseNj94gRAohxAJ9CKC7/fr0mLeTqVs37qskwhLCBeACg1gJG c3NiYGl/Q4aJ6esVV2Boycs= =GrF8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
