New version of mock working (I think)

[seth vidal]

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.



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