Re: [Social-discuss] PHP-Based GNU Social structure

[Ted Smith]

The people who cannot run a daemon are certainly a subclass of people who 
cannot run a GLAMP stack. From the point of view of the user who does not wish 
to install software locally/persistantly, the models are equal. From the POV of 
a user who does want to run software locally, the model that does not involve a 
full GLAMP stack is simpler and more secure.

There is no reason why the interface to the daemon cannot be a GLAMP 
application. If there is a fork and two core daemons are written, one in PHP as 
a GLAMP application and one as a C program, if the protocol is well-defined, 
the same GLAMP UI should work with both. I believe I even mentioned a web-based 
UI in the first email in this thread. 

"Matt Lee" <address@hidden> wrote:

>On 03/29/10 13:50, Ted Smith wrote:
>
>> The contention here isn't the UI. Everyone agrees that a web UI would be
>> nice, as would a desktop-based UI. People disagree on the implementation
>> of the core as a GLAMP application versus a conventional daemon. But if
>> we accept the duplicated effort, there's no reason not to have both.
>
>Not everyone can run a daemon, so we have to go with the best thing for
>everyone.
>

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