Re: [Monotone-devel] usher

[Timothy Brownawell]

On 04/15/2010 02:13 AM, Thomas Keller wrote:
> Am 15.04.2010 04:50, schrieb Timothy Brownawell:

> > > Finally, what speaks against integrating usher in monotone's base
> > > completly?
> >
> > As in make it all a single binary? Not sure what the benefit would be,
>
> Well, I haven't looked at the code and its probably too different from
> mtn's network code, but I imagined a new "proxy" mode in `mtn serve`
> which would do just what usher does today. And we'd instantly also get a
> server-side administrative console within mtn itself to manage the
> server's running netsync connections and server setups. But thats
> probably too much and too hard for now...

Yeah, the code really is completely different. And probably not as good 
at the moment.

> Let's concentrate first to put usher in a release-capable state so
> packagers (like me :) can pick it up. If it packaged I'll have a much
> easier way to convince the guys over there at indefero some time to
> install and configure it as monotone helper for the use case.

Seems reasonable.

> > and I like the more modular approach. For instance I have a half-written
> > usher library in C# somewhere, I imagine that sort of thing would be
> > more difficult if usher was baked into monotone.
>
> Out of interest - what does this library do?

It doesn't do much of anything at the moment. ;)

Mostly it's (meant to end up) like the standalone c++ usher, except with 
the admin interface and serverlist reader replaced with a function-call 
interface. The idea being that it might be easier to integrate with 
something serving a website interface, although it would have the 
downside of needing to interrupt any netsync connections in order to 
change the frontend. Perhaps a better choice would just be to expand the 
admin interface so it can be used to add/delete server definitions, and 
then have a library to wrap that.... depends on the goals I guess, 
having a single daemon would be easier to set up but more disruptive to 
upgrade than a pair that talk to eachother.


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Timothy

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