At 10:31 AM 2/13/02 -0500, 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.
Fair enough. Happy to take specific suggestions for improvements.
sA
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