On 7.2.2008, William Morgan wrote: > If you can run a sup server somewhere, surely you can run sshd there > instead. The only difference would be UI lag on slow connections. Is > that the big win?
Man, your throw away suggestions should come with "warning, bear trap ahead" notices :) For me, the biggest draw of having it as a service is multi-app usage. I treat sup as a view upon my email but I use my email for a whole lot of things and sup doesnt (yet) give me views of this data if you see what I mean. For instance - I might mark emails as todos via the message hooks so I can email myself todos. I dont need to see who these are from or the date of these email, just the snippet. Also I dont really want to go into sup to get these I'd rather have them available via http. I can do this read only now, but if I want to do any interactions with this "view" I need to go via sup really. Also I cant do this when sup is open on my machine as its got the index open and I'm not sure ferret lets you do multi-user access to the index. Console access is great when you've got it, but its not so good on a phone/pda (I am determined to get it running locally on my n800 though!) - so accessing the index through other ways would be useful here. Also, sup *is already* a client/server console tool - you're accessing imap or maildir-over-ssh as a client. The beauty of IMAP (_not_ the protocol which I have to agree sucks) is the fact I can use any client I want *locally* and have the same view upon my email anywhere. I dont have to save an attachment to a disk on my imap server, open winscp to go to that server pick up the attachment and save locally to view it on my machine at work or battle with x11 auth and install x11/gnome packages on my server so I can view it over X11 over ssh. Dont get me wrong, for my biggest usage sup doesnt need to use the index over a networked service, I could write most stuff as ruby cgis or RoR that access the ferret index because most of the time sup wont be running so wont care. Its just I wouldnt have to worry about it if it was networked :) and I think it would open up more possibilities of the use of the index (again, I'm thinking "views" upon my data not necessarily sup's usage). Marcus _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk
