[interfacekit] Re: Phase 1

On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Cedric Degea wrote:

> Since you guys are now at the name-the-protocol-constants stage,
> I've thought of something that -might- be useful, i.e. in the
> "glad this was discussed before" league, don't know for sure:
> 
> OpenTracker (and a little bit deskbar) has tons of dependancies
> on internals of both the app_server and registrar,  not just
> on some extern"C"   functions but also message::what
> constants and the like.

Functions? How can it call functions of other applications? I doubt, that
the Tracker is linked against them. Mmh, maybe internal libbe functions?

> Those are easy to spots, Pavel(?) went to great pain to
> outline each of them with one of those famous "will robinson"
> comment headers, so people may just $ grep  for those.
> 
> Since you're at the stage when some messaging protocol has
> to be decided, maybe have  alook at all this; it will make
> the OpenBeOS-soon-to-be-renamed code not pretty, but I
> guess that's the price to pay to be compatible in R1...
> 
> Thought I'd bring this up in case people didn't have this in mind;
> cd.

Yep, thanks. I will have a look.
However, I think, the matter is not that critical, as we could add
needed functions/messages later. Aside from this, we also have the Tracker
sources and can fix those.

CU, Ingo

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