>>(1) Provides a native Perl API that can be used as the basis for web, command line, and web service versions of "clients".
I think the API should be 100% language neutral and be implemented as an XML Web Service. Why force anyone to customize or write from scratch in any particular language? >>(3)Why do we have to go through this process of diff releases every time? Why provide the client at all? A rudimentary client to exercise the API would be nice, but I'd rather have a well documented API to code against. I wrote an Amazon client in a day that could look up books by author and display the Buy Now link for my associate account. There is an example of a Web Service done right. Quickbooks has an XML interface to push and pull data from their accounting system. It has 4 methods - connect, disconnect, sendXML, receiveXML. I was blown away by the docs and examples in numerous languages. The API is so close to an XML WS already! Get rid of the encryption, publish an XML schema, and use SSL so we don't need to be freaking TCPIP/Blowfish gurus to write a client in our preferred language. >>I personally haven't downloaded new source from SF or Tucows in at least a year and I don't feel I'm missing anything. Neither have we, since we'd have to redo our shopping cart, which was much more expensive than the 'free' client software. I'm all for an open source version for those who want it, but would like to write a client that we could sell to the Windows folks who aren't PERL developers(We are ASP.Net-centric). We'd even write the web service ourselves if we knew Tucows had no plans for this and we could make it pay for itself. If anyone is interested is learning further about XML Web Services I highly recommend: http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/100803-1.aspx John Roche einfosystems.net Microsoft Certified Partner This mail was content checked for malicious code and viruses by GFI MailSecurity. GFI MailSecurity provides email content checking, exploit detection and anti-virus for Exchange & SMTP servers. Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more information.
