Robert,
In the interest of contributing to the effort, perhaps, now that you have gone through it and know where the docs could be improved as a result, you could provide more details and suggestions to Scott and the team as to specifically what should be changed or added? Part of being here is being a member of the opensrs "community" and contributing to each other as much as possible, perhaps this can be your contribution? Wednesday, Wednesday, February 13, 2002, 7:31:43 AM, Robert Dale wrote: > On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Scott Allan wrote: >> - I would note that many people have been able to get things working on >> different platforms > This seems to be a popular response to my quibble. Multiple people have > pointed out to me that it's work with different languages/platforms. > I know, I am one of those people! The point is that there is a significant > barrier to those wishing to write a client using a different language who > do not already know perl because the protocol docs are so poor. I don't > think it's an appropriate solution to say go look at the PHP client, or this > and that client (what if I don't know those languages?). However, that's the > only answer today. I took the time to learn an adequate amount of perl so I > could understand OpenSRS's implementation. And after dealing with perl's black > magic, I much rather would have had plain ol' protocol docs. The protocol is > actually quite simple, but is made out to be a bear. >> - if you are not getting responses to your questions, we can correct this - >> just drop us a note off-list with your ticket numbers and we can follow >> through - protocol questions can be trickier as they are not as common, so >> our response time is likely slower - posting protocol questions to this >> list can be a quick way to get the info you seek, as many here have worked >> it out already, or are "in the know" > The only outstanding question I have now is whether or not OpenSRS is going > to provide a current DTD for the protocol. I'm not quite sure when it was > available or when it disappeared, but it certainly hasn't been included in any > of the 2.4x releases. I have no problem keeping my own DTD up to date. But > the issue becomes more difficult should there ever be a significant change and > is not properly documented. I will be more than happy to follow this up > off-list if it can't be answered here. -- Best regards, William X Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- OpenSRS installation and customizations Payment Processing Integration Apache Installation and Support Services http://www.wxsoft.com/
