[Pipet Devel] Re: [Fwd: [Pipet Devel] Re: Overflow/Loci/GMS collaboration]

jarl van katwijk jarl at casema.net
Tue Mar 14 17:54:20 EST 2000


"J.W. Bizzaro" wrote:

> Jean-Marc Valin wrote:
> >
> > Also considering remote execution, it's a nice thing to have, but it's not
> > something you're going to use all the time.
>
> You might not need remote execution for AI/robotics, but it is critical for
> computational biology.
>
> I think rather than some sort of homogenization of our projects, we'd be
> better off distinguishing application integration and application
> development.  GMS/Loci can handle the first, and Overflow can handle the
> second.  This is item 1) from before, which you said is trivial.  But
> considering issues of authentication/security that Jarl brought up, issues of
> Internet-awareness that I brought up, and issues of speed/performance that you
> brought up, it may be an insurmountable task trying to get Overflow to do all
> of this.  In any case, making Overflow's core 'the' core would leave very
> little left of the GMS project...and I think that's why Jarl is feeling a bit
> jilted.
>

hehe, just a little bit :)  But mostly I'm defending my idears..
Also when the Overflow project aint going to collaborate, I'll still watch them
very regulairly and I surtainly will think a lot more about how to do wrapping of
sub nets of overflow-type nodes inside a gms\loci node. Because it add new
features without breaking the security \ locationing \ etc.






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