Robert,
In the interest of contributing to the effort, perhaps, now that you
have gone through it and know where the docs could be improved as a
result, you could provide more details and suggestions to Scott and
the team as to specifically what should be changed or added?
Part of being here is being a member of the opensrs "community" and
contributing to each other as much as possible, perhaps this can be
your contribution?
Wednesday, Wednesday, February 13, 2002, 7:31:43 AM, Robert Dale wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Scott Allan wrote:
>> - I would note that many people have been able to get things working on
>> different platforms
> This seems to be a popular response to my quibble. Multiple people have
> pointed out to me that it's work with different languages/platforms.
> I know, I am one of those people! The point is that there is a significant
> barrier to those wishing to write a client using a different language who
> do not already know perl because the protocol docs are so poor. I don't
> think it's an appropriate solution to say go look at the PHP client, or this
> and that client (what if I don't know those languages?). However, that's the
> only answer today. I took the time to learn an adequate amount of perl so I
> could understand OpenSRS's implementation. And after dealing with perl's black
> magic, I much rather would have had plain ol' protocol docs. The protocol is
> actually quite simple, but is made out to be a bear.
>> - if you are not getting responses to your questions, we can correct this -
>> just drop us a note off-list with your ticket numbers and we can follow
>> through - protocol questions can be trickier as they are not as common, so
>> our response time is likely slower - posting protocol questions to this
>> list can be a quick way to get the info you seek, as many here have worked
>> it out already, or are "in the know"
> The only outstanding question I have now is whether or not OpenSRS is going
> to provide a current DTD for the protocol. I'm not quite sure when it was
> available or when it disappeared, but it certainly hasn't been included in any
> of the 2.4x releases. I have no problem keeping my own DTD up to date. But
> the issue becomes more difficult should there ever be a significant change and
> is not properly documented. I will be more than happy to follow this up
> off-list if it can't be answered here.
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