Re: [py-xmlrpc-devel] CVS archive

[Shilad S. <sh...@so...>]

Conrad,

I'm glad to here that you find the library useful.

The main motivation for ehs was so that we could write services inhouse in C
that are fast.  I took a look at several other options of C libraries... for
xml-rpc I looked at epinions and Eric Kidd's versions.

Eric Kidd's xmlrpc library is pretty closely tied into libwww, which I
dislike (it's a bit big and clunky for my tastes).

Epinions library is quite good, but I would need to code my own transport
libraries.  There is no really good C server library that fits nicely into
complicated event handling programs (that I've found).

So that's the motivation.

As far as significant features...

- I plan on including better support for HTTP including HTTPS, different
encodings, etc.
- I'll include an OPTION to use expat as the parser
- It will be available as a standalone C library for C programs, or other
languages can have C bindings
- It will be COMPLETELY backwards compatible with the xmlrpc.py module

I'm even thinking about trying to go down the soap path, although I know
that will involve writing a schema validator.

I actually think now that I may release another version or two under the
old codebase, though.

Shilad


> 
> Hi Shilad
> 
> What are the motivation/significant features of ehs?
> 
> Btw, I use py-xmlrpc every day and having gone through doing xmlrpc in
> C++ in the last two days\I appreciate it even more ;-)
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Conrad
> 
> On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 07:22, Shilad Sen wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I finally got around to setting up a cvs archive for the py-xmlrpc library.
> > 
> > There are two packages available. Py-xmlrpc, is the latest (unstable)
> > release under the old codebase.  Ehs is the latest (really unstable) new
> > codebase.  Please peruse the new codebase and let me know what you think.
> > 
> > You can download the NEW stuff by running the following commands (for redhat
> > bash users).
> > 
> > export CVS_RSH=ssh
> > cvs -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/py-xmlrpc co ehs
> > 
> > if you want to get the old codebase for any reason, the you would use:
> > 
> > cvs -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/py-xmlrpc co py-xmlrpc
> > 
> > The new codebase is far along, but not well documented.  I need suggestions on
> > it!
> > 
> > Shilad