Re: AW: D-BUS versus GDOMAP (Was: D-BUS equivalent)

[MJ Ray]

On 2004-08-31 11:38:30 +0100 Richard Frith-Macdonald 
<richard@brainstorm.co.uk> wrote:

> On 31 Aug 2004, at 11:08, MJ Ray wrote:
> > That's not very helpful. It ranks alongside "STFW" and "RTFM".
> I think that's a little unfair ... as the design/rationale is 
> documented near 
> the front of gdomap.h
> His email may have been very terse, but it *was* accurate [...]

Accurate but about as incomplete as humanly possible, rather like 
answering a hungry man who asks "where can I find food?" with "on a 
farm". Even pointing to gdomap.h would have been better. I think I'd 
already looked through the source a bit by that point and found little 
helpful in it. I'm not used to .h files containing more than the man 
pages or class docs.

> Its purpose is solely to map service names to ports
> on a network-wide basis. [...]

That's a clearer description than the man page currently has. Can you 
or another copyright assigner add it there, please?

> > Is there an example of a GDO conversation somewhere?
> Not that | know of ... I'm not sure what you would want in an 
> 'example' 
> anyway. [...]

Pretty much what you described. I'm sort of used to reading RFCs and a 
lot of their protocol ones include examples, which are bascially "here 
are a couple of typical conversations for this protocol". They really 
do help a lot.

> The distributed objects mechanism is described reasonably in the NeXT 
> documentation and also in the class documentation, though an overview 
> really 
> has to be inferred from the class documentation.

Which NeXT documentation and which classes deal with this? I already 
didn't find it in the OpenStep specification, although some pages seem 
to be missing from the copy I'm using.

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