On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 14:45 -0500, Clark Williams wrote:
I can see I'm on the losing end of this argument. My first
suggestion
would have been to use mmap to map the status file, but re-reading
Dan's email, my guess is that's not significantly different from
reading the file. And on the plus side, we can pass structured data
using XML-RPC, so that might "suck less" :).
Let me just state two things and then I'll shut up on this issue:
1. I think that adding XML-RPC has great potential to be a Pandora's
Box, in terms of potential code bloat. We need to be on guard to
avoid the "Now that we have XML-RPC, let's add this feature!". Please
remember that the intent behind mock is to rebuild an SRPM inside a
chroot. Everything else is secondary.
2. We need to hear from Dan as to whether the likes the idea. My guess
is he will since plague already has XML-RPC elements.
Clark "Back in my day we didn't need fancy XML-RPCs! We had DCE!"
Williams
Just for 2cents, I'd like to make sure we don't forget the other use
cases of mock:
1. in brew
2. standalone with just a person in front of a terminal
-sv