Re: [Phli-developers] Backend/Frontend (was Re: Next real-world developer meeting)

[Andreas S. <an...@sa...>]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Johan Viklund wrote:

>> Btw, I spoke to a guy at Update the other day. He was a bit interested in
>> Phli and seems to have quite a few good ideas about GUI design. He
>> suggested a few design changes to make the software perform better over
>> slow links, e g modem or ADSL. The changes mainly involved making a more
>> sophisticated server which does the resizing (to allow different
>> thumbnail sizes or low-res images for previews) and caches the results.
>> What do you think about this? Should we just go ahead with the current
>> plans and make sure that backend - frontend separation is good enough to
>> add something like this in the future? Or should we try to implement
>> something like this in the first release?
>
> I've always thought about it like this in a way, with a good
> separation between backend and frontend. And now we need to decide on
> a protocol too, wohoo!
I'd rather stick to using the client-server communication exposed by the 
database backend until after the first release. However, if we plan this 
carefully, creating a new "Phli server backend" will be pretty easy. I've 
been thinking about using XMLRPC or something the like for the client 
server communication, but I'm not sure...

//Andreas