At 10:31 AM 2/13/02 -0500, 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.
Fair enough. Happy to take specific suggestions for improvements. sA
