Re: Perl Auto-RPC

2001-03-29 Thread Greg McCarroll
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 18:02:43 +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent the following bits through the ether: > > > > > Here's what I use, which probably isn't what most people would think > > > of when they hear "XML parser" > > > > In

Re: Perl Auto-RPC

2001-03-29 Thread pmh
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 18:02:43 +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent the following bits through the ether: > > > Here's what I use, which probably isn't what most people would think > > of when they hear "XML parser" > > Indeed. This is because it doesn't parse XML. Alright then, go

Re: Perl Auto-RPC

2001-03-29 Thread Leon Brocard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sent the following bits through the ether: > Here's what I use, which probably isn't what most people would think > of when they hear "XML parser" Indeed. This is because it doesn't parse XML. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europ

Re: Perl Auto-RPC

2001-03-29 Thread pmh
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 00:37:38 -0800, Nathan Torkington wrote: > Greg McCarroll wrote: > > sure it makes sense, but it still is CiP and trust me this isn't > > the only bit of CiP in here and much kudos to Paul for it ;-) > > I'm unsure what CiP is, but if it has anything to do with gnarliness, > I

Re: Perl Auto-RPC

2001-03-29 Thread Nathan Torkington
Greg McCarroll wrote: > > That dropped my jaw. > > Is it available online? You'd have to talk to him, I don't know. He said it had reasonably good performance, too, which surprised him. It definitely sounds like uncut CiP to me :-) Nat

Re: Perl Auto-RPC

2001-03-29 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Nathan Torkington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greg McCarroll wrote: > > sure it makes sense, but it still is CiP and trust me this isn't > > the only bit of CiP in here and much kudos to Paul for it ;-) > > I'm unsure what CiP is, but if it has anything to do with gnarliness, CiP = Crack indu

Re: Perl Auto-RPC

2001-03-29 Thread Nathan Torkington
Greg McCarroll wrote: > sure it makes sense, but it still is CiP and trust me this isn't > the only bit of CiP in here and much kudos to Paul for it ;-) I'm unsure what CiP is, but if it has anything to do with gnarliness, I know that Paul wrote a >1k regexp to parse XML correctly. It only fails

Re: Perl Auto-RPC

2001-03-29 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Nathan Torkington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Simon Wistow wrote: > > > You use the RPC::Automagic module and pass it a RPC server/port/user > > name/password/whatever. From that point on it overloads the use keyword > > and anything you try and use it will actually connect to the RPC server >

Re: Perl Auto-RPC

2001-03-29 Thread Nathan Torkington
Simon Wistow wrote: > You use the RPC::Automagic module and pass it a RPC server/port/user > name/password/whatever. From that point on it overloads the use keyword > and anything you try and use it will actually connect to the RPC server > and pass it all the parameters. Any modules you didn't w

Re: Perl Auto-RPC

2001-03-28 Thread Mark Fowler
Code I wrote to do most of what you people are talking about a couple of weeks back, loading over ssh. This does not work for non-pure perl code. i.e. XS is a no-no The idea I was using it for: a) User presses a button in the web browser b) Downloads .config.html from that directory the site

Re: Perl Auto-RPC

2001-03-28 Thread Robin Houston
Is the intention simply that it be possible to use modules which aren't available locally? If so, you could do something like: - use request is passed to module server - module server "require"s module (will do nothing if it's already been required. That's a good thing) - server serialise

Re: Perl Auto-RPC

2001-03-28 Thread Simon Wistow
Robin Houston wrote: > A stateful server would definitely help here. It was going to be a stateful server. But stateless could be an option.

Re: Perl Auto-RPC

2001-03-28 Thread Simon Wistow
Greg McCarroll wrote: > # locally an rpc call is made to the remote package server, which creates > # an object and returns the local id to the other machine That was the way I was thinking of doing it as well. Hmm, nother thing to add to the list of things to do.

Re: Perl Auto-RPC

2001-03-28 Thread Robin Houston
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:31:36PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: > > You use the RPC::Automagic module and pass it a RPC server/port/user > name/password/whatever. From that point on it overloads the use keyword > and anything you try and use it will actually connect to the RPC server > and pass it