Re: client-server

2000-12-28 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 22-Dec-2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. XML/SOAP (what Microsoft is calling "web services") to provide distributed RPC like services. This does much the same job as CORBA, but uses technologies that can be re-used elsewhere easily, and so have a low maintenance cost

Re: building gncash-1.4.9

2000-12-28 Thread Derek Atkins
Um, I have no idea.. It just worked for me (once I got a working version of g-wrap for RedHat 6.2). I last tried to build 1.4.8, not 1.4.9; maybe something changed in the interim? Or if you like I can try to build the 1.4.9 RPM on 6.2 -derek Linas Vepstas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi

Re: client-server

2000-12-28 Thread Derek Atkins
Tyson Dowd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, I was looking at RPC/Corba/etc. over TCP, not over UDP. The I got the impression that you were advocating RPC over UDP. Well, you can certainly use RPC over UDP, however you don't get a reliable transport, and encryption data becomes much

Re: client-server

2000-12-28 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 28-Dec-2000, Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tyson Dowd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No. But if you are going to add RPC to this system, then you might as well adopt the SOAP standards, since it's a no more work than rolling your own. FLAME What the hell are you talking

Re: client-server

2000-12-28 Thread Eugene Tyurin
I apologize if I'm missing something - didn't start paying attention to this thread until recently.But why does the project need client-server, database, CORBA/SOAP and god knows what else? I always thought that GnuCash was a Quicken-type or, at most, a PeachTree-like

How do I get the top-level HTML widget from a gnc_report_window?

2000-12-28 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Bill, I'm busily working on the pane code, and I need to get the actual widget from a gnc_report_window and shove it in a container. How do I do so? Robert Merkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We are excited and

Support for casual users (was: Re: client-server)

2000-12-28 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Eugene Tyurin writes: snip Is this really something a casual user who wants to balance his checkbook and know how much he spends on beer can bear? Unless it's totally transparent to them, no. Basically, it may be that GnuCash, in the long term, has to split into two seperate

Re: client-server

2000-12-28 Thread Tyson Dowd
[sorry for the second send, Derek, I forgot to CC the list] On 28-Dec-2000, Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tyson Dowd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, I was looking at RPC/Corba/etc. over TCP, not over UDP. The I got the impression that you were advocating RPC over UDP.

Re: client-server

2000-12-28 Thread linas
FLAME Can we not flame? There's a second level of issues tat we aven't gotten into yet, and these can't be discussed in a hostile enviroment. Linas was saying you can do gnucash-as-an-ASP style stuff using some sort of roll your own solution using CGI. What I was saying is that given

Re: building gncash-1.4.9

2000-12-28 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Derek Atkins said: Um, I have no idea.. It just worked for me (once I got a working version of g-wrap for RedHat 6.2). I last tried to build 1.4.8, not 1.4.9; maybe something changed in the interim? Or if you like I can try to build the 1.4.9 RPM on 6.2 That

Re: client-server

2000-12-28 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Tyson Dowd said: If you can open a socket, send out the right headers, and spit out some XML, you can do SOAP. right, that's the big apeal behind soap. ... The problem seems to be that C is insufficiently reflective to be able to do an easy implementation (e.g. Perl

Re: client-server

2000-12-28 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The problem seems to be that C is insufficiently reflective to be able to do an easy implementation (e.g. Perl and Python). These languages can easily serialize their own data structures into (say) XML, and then de-serialize. So it's