[Pipet Devel] Re: which handles distribution (was: vsh?)

[Jean-Marc Valin]

> > I still think there's nothing that keeps Overflow from doing distributed stuff,
> > and I think I've found a way to do it (simply by creating two new node types).
> > Now the problem is that I've never used sockets before. Is anyone interested in
> > helping out. This would actually serve two goals at once: See it we can get
> > networking in Overflow, and have someone in Loci (or GMS) to get some
> > "experience" with Overflow. Anyone interrested?
> 
> This is a VERY important question:
> 
>   If Overflow handles application distribution and integration,
>   what will happen to GMS and all of its code???  This is what
>   GMS is designed to do.
> 
> We CANNOT thow GMS away.  Jarl simply wouldn't collaborate if we did.
> 

I'm not talking about throwing GMS away... I'm just saying that we could
probably paste the GMS code into Overflow nodes and have all the GMS
functionnality into Overflow. So far, I haven't found anything that can't be
inserted into an Overflow node (GMS might prove me wrong, but I don't think).
The suggestion of writing network code was more as a proof of concept... I don't
want to rewrite all GMS.

As for the name... why not dfsh (data-flow shell) or fsh (flow shell)? I think
RAIDE sounds a bit more like RAID... plus "raide" means "stiff" in french.

	Jean-Marc


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Jean-Marc Valin
Universite de Sherbrooke - Genie Electrique
valj01 at gel.usherb.ca