[REBOL] Re: Rugby XPi : The next generation
From: petr:krenzelok:trz:cz at: 24-Jan-2002 6:29
Maarten Koopmans wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am currently working on Rugby XPi , the next major version of Rugby.
> But I need to know some features that you may want.
>
> Currently I am building in the following functions:
>
> - exec-code: func [ passsword [string!] code [block!]] ; execute code in a
> running rugby server
>
is it replacement for rexec?
> - functions? [password [string!]] ;returns a list of available functions
function names only? Or function definitions similar to 'help function output,
including comments and parameters required?
> - profiling [ password [string!] b [logic!]] ;Turns on and of profiling on
> or off on exposed functions
eh, I do not know what the profiling is at all :-)
> - ping ; Check to see if the server is alive
> - publish [ password [string!] name [file!] content [block! string!] desc
> [block! string!]];publish content on this rugby server
what is this one? What is the difference to below mentioned 'add-function?
> - get-content [ password [string!] /name n [file!]];get all content or just
> the named one n
> - add-friend [password [string!] url [url!]]; Add another rugby server to
> your friend list
... and what does this one mean? Does it mean I can call some
yet-another-rugby-server function, performing just call to the rugby server I am
connected to (bridge functionality)?
> - remove-friend [password [string!] url [url!]]; The opposite
> - search [desc [string! block!]]; Search for content
> - add-functions [ password [string!] func-list [block!]]; Add functions to a
> rugby service
> - remove-functions [password [string!] func-list[block!]]; the opposite
> - set-password [old [string!]new[string!]]
set-password [old [string!]new[string!] confirm [string!]] ; :-) - avoiding
typos ...
> get-rugby-service will always return an object as of the next version
>
> The XML-RPC stuff will go final there as well.
And that's something I am not clear about. I remember discussion of adding
additional stuff to Rugby. You told me that such stuff should go to user level.
What is the point of adding XML-RPC as an transport mechanism directly to Rugby?
I want SOAP, someone else will want Jabber protocols etc etc and we will end up
with Rugby-installation-on-CD :-) Well - I haven't looked at latest Rugby as I
am really not interested in XML-RPC - so - what layer does it live in? Is it in
your http layer? If so, we should/could probably modularize here, to let ppl
choose, what upper-layer communication mechanism they choose. As I said - we
will have to support SOAP one day, if we want to talk to web-services servers
...
> Various bug fixes, of course...
> Better docs (volunteers anyone? remarks?)
>
> Plus various view/console based utilities, such as a service monitor, a
> remote console and ...???
> I'll also bundle tail-func, contract, erebol and some other stuff as extra
> utilities.
> It may take some time, but we'll get there!
>
> Many thanks to those that have donated to Rugby development so far and the
> kind emails of the last few days!
>
> Please respond with your comments, so I can make Rugby better!
Compressed retrieval of stubs in both tcp and http layers. GoRIM was example -
47 KB vs. 6KB compressed - will speed-up connection set-up time ...
Thanks for continuing Rugby development!
-pekr-
