[Groupkit-users] Couple of Questions, comments

[Colin M. <co...@fi...>]

Hi,

I've been playing with groupkit 5.2 and tcl8.5 - I have a couple of
questions/comments of a general nature.  I like what I see, btw.

1) rpc - it's doing what comm does, is there a compelling reason for
using rpc over comm, or comm over rpc?  Might be nice to expose the
underlying socket, to the extent that it'd then be possible to push
handlers over the top (get compression, encryption, etc.)

2) environment - distributed tree.  Very cool.  Can one insert procs
into an environment, as elements?  This would be nice because then one
could map other data structures under it (e.g. arrays.)

3) distribution - I have no idea how you're doing peer distibution.

4) firewalls - each node in a group needs a public IP address - perhaps
there needs to be some kind of proxy server?

5) obj - might be nice to map to arrays - this would make the thing
completely transparent.

All in all, very cool.  I'll bang this stuff onto the Wiki, too.

BTW: I've got a debian packaging thing going.

Colin.