> -----Original Message----- > From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- > boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Tony Gravagno > Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 1:32 PM > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > Subject: Re: [U2] What do you do with CallHTTP? > > > From: Dan McGrath > > 1) By having to pay for something as elemental as > > language bindings... > > > > 2) How do create a language binding for U2 without several > issues... > > Dan, I believe my notes were misunderstood. > > To your point #1: When I talk about someone paying for coding, I > didn't mean language bindings would be a for-sale product. I > thought all of the notes about this being a community project > made that clear. I'm saying language bindings can be FOSS, but > people shouldn't be asked to starve in the name of creating and > supporting FOSS for the benefit of everyone else.
[chop] > > Most people here don't care about Reality or mvBase, don't care > about QMClient or mv.NET, and don't care about Eiffel or > Smalltalk. That's fine. Once the API is defined, different > groups of people can focus on their preferred interfaces. But > right now absoilutely none of the above interfaces exist for any > MV platform. I'm hoping we can get from nothing to something, > and it's entirely possible, without everyone deferring to the > DBMS companies to do everything for us. > > Maybe it's time for me to publish something more official on > this? > > Regards, > T > Hey T, this brings up memories of some interesting communications we had many years ago regarding a standardized communication method. Do you remember the round table pow-wow at Stardust (Spectrum)? MV.Net is about the closest thing to what we discussed but it still is not a portable language binding platform. I still have that unfinished MV comm protocol RFC if you want to poke at it and dissect it. It was an ASCII protocol spec that could be used to perform the basic data IO operations along with dictionary-oriented statements. Subroutine calls were to be supported as well, but I never got that far due to a lack of interest. I guess a bare 'white paper' is too complicated? I also wrote a VB socket client example and a socket service demonstrating the protocol, which could just as easily been Unix pipes or Windows files. The MVWWW project is another cross-flavor potential project that was geared towards freeing people from a specific DBMS HTML/XML integration tool. Frankly, it was a project I started so I would be able to port off of FlashCONNECT easily at some point if the need arose. One developer submitted useful code back during the many years it's been on SourceForge so it's far from an enterprise quality project in its current state. Maybe the lack of interest is due to a lack of advertising or a due to a lack of ability to put the pieces together? PickSource has been gone for a long time now, but I'll leave that discussion for another day. Regards, ---------------------------------------- Glen Batchelor IT Director/CIO/CTO All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 E-mail: webmas...@all-spec.com Web: http://www.all-spec.com Blog: http://blog.all-spec.com ---------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
