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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Re: Saying Hi !
From:       Peter_Kümmel <syntheticpp () gmx ! net>
Date:       2014-04-30 5:47:23
Message-ID: 53608E6B.8080202 () gmx ! net
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On 28.04.2014 22:31, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote:
> On 28/04/14 07:15, Peter Kümmel wrote:
>> When designing the transfer protocol you should
>> evaluate Google's Protocol Buffers:
>>
>> https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/overview
>>
>> Would guarantee a clean interface to the outer world. And you
>> don't have to think about parsing incoming bytes.
>
> this reminded my of CORBA: we could use it to have seamless invocations
> among remote instances of LyX, couldn't we :-) ?

To ride a more recent wave, we should use websockets/json, then a webfrontent
would be possible, and we would be more attractive for the javascript people.

And then sometimes lyx could switch from C++ to javascript ;)

Peter

>
> LyX seems to already have its own way to serialize LFUNs, but I guess we'll
> have to serialize more, and specifically DocIterator(s)...
>
>      T.
>
>

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