[haiku-appserver] Re: communication

Hi,

Axel Dörfler wrote:
>>I've been mulling over how to fix PortLink properly, and there is 
>>another issue with PortLink as it is. There are occasions where a 
>>message protocol has been changed on one side and not the other, and 
>>the client or the server crashes, hangs, or starts using weird data. 
>>There needs to be some way to reduce the problems with attachments. 
>>Here's what I propose: scrap PortLink for something else which we 
>>know 
>>works: BMessage, Dano-style. It's a massive changeover, but I think 
>>it 
>>would also be very much worth it.
> 
> Sure, that would solve lots of the problems. OTOH it's a lot more 
> expansive, too. BMessages would need to be changed a lot, too, since 
> they currently can't be merged together for a simple port write.

        How about a BMessage-type kind of thing that can be grouped?
This would solve all(?) our problems.

> We own the code, so (apart from bugs), we only really need to care 
> about backwards compatibility.

        It would solve this too.


bye,
Adi.

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