On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 11:33 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 09:42 -0500, Clark Williams wrote:
> I've used XML-RPC to implement services a couple of times now. Both
> times it's been python to python, with a python client talking to a
> python server running under mod_python in Apache. I'm not sure how
> you would implement XML-RPC in a push mode, since someone has to
> provide the remote procedure call service and someone has to call it.
>
> I really like XML-RPC as a an RPC mechanism, but I think it's a bit of
> overkill for this. To do it as an RPC, we would have to listen on a
> socket for someone to ask "what's your state?" and reply with the
> current state of the build. I'd say it's much simpler to "publish"
the
> state to somewhere that anyone who cares (e.g. plague) can read it.
> I'm still thinking shared memory, but there may be another mechanism
> (a simpler one) that I'm missing.
>
What about using dbus? Its not "simple" per se, but should scale pretty
well and allow for pretty good interaction.
gonna play hell if our builders are rhel4.
-sv