Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Xend XML-RPC Refactoring

[Matt Sottile <matt@xxxxxxxx>]

For those who don't know the library Ron speaks of...

http://sexpr.sourceforge.net/


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On Jan 31, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Ronald G Minnich wrote:

> Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I wanted to give the list a heads up about something a number of  
> > us discussed at the recent XenSummit.
> > We would like to simplify Xend by utilizing more of the standard  
> > Python library and relying on less of our own code.  The most  
> > obvious thing here is the current S-Expression/HTTP RPC  
> > interface.  We would like to replace this with XML-RPC using  
> > Python's builtin support (xmlrpclib and SimpleXMLRPCServer).
> > I've got some initial code and more details on the wiki (http:// 
> > wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xend/XML-RPC).  Early estimates are  
> > that this would reduce the code in Xend by about 33% (5k slocs).   
> > We would also like to standardize this XML-RPC interface so that  
> > third-parties write apps to this interface without worrying about  
> > massive breakage.
>
> I think moving from s-exp's to XML is a bad move. If you want, use  
> your s-expression library from LANL; it's used worldwide, and has  
> done the job for a lot of projects.
> I know of at least one project that moved from XML to s-exp's,  
> using our library, because XML is just plain unwieldy.
> thanks
>
> ron
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