Greetings all,
I have always wondered why fulcrum was not used/considered to be the XML-RPC for Xindice. Can anybody give us some backgrond on that please ? The reason I think my question is related to Kimbro's question is that Fulcum is documented ? On Sunday 10 Aug 2003 11:14 pm, Kevin O'Neill wrote: > On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 21:00:21 -0700, Kimbro Staken wrote: > > I've seen a number of posts referring to the XML-RPC API as being > > private. That was certainly never the intention when it was originally > > written. The major reason it exists is to give other languages access to > > Xindice, which means it needs to be a publicly documented API. Or > > lacking documentation, it at least needs to be considered OK to develop > > against it if you can figure out how. What's the reason for preferring > > otherwise? > > My reason is simple. I need to make a number of changes to the payload to > fix outstanding bug reports (see > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xindice-dev&m=106026306508909&w=2 ). If > it's private (ie unsupported) I can feel free to fix bugs without the need > ensure that the solution is backward compatible. All I need to ensure is > our unit tests execute for the xml-rpc driver. > > If someone wants to go ahead and create a driver for another language, > that's fantastic. We should feel free to fix the bugs in our supported > drivers as we see fit. Even if this means changing the payloads of the > packets and breaking the third party driver. > > Beyond the fixes I have a number of improvements I want to do to the > xml-rpc driver (lazy loading of paged results being one of the bigger > ones). These things will certianly break compatibility. > > I suppose that we could say that we maintain compatibility at the payload > level in bug fix releases (eg 1.1.1) and not . releases (eg 1.2). As long > as we are happy to leave bugs in the bug fix releases that require a > change to the payload. > > -k. -- Best Regards. JC. \\- - -// ( @ @ ) ===oOOo-(_)-oOOo================================================= [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================================================
