Re: [RFA] 12843

Tom Tromey
2011-08-30T15:02:58Z

Jan> When you are already considering changes on the front end side has been
Jan> discussed some replacement by D-Bus, ORBit2 or similar RPC protocol?

André> Please, pretty please, don't go down that road.

I think this is easily done already without much help from us -- Python
has a variety of RPC approaches out of the box, you could write up
XMLRPC to our API pretty easily.

André> I've been adding extra "MI style" output fields for all kind of data,
André> including structured and image data, for two years now, and
André> escaping is _really_ not a problem.

Do you generate MI-compliant output from Python? I'm curious.

Tom