New version of mock working (I think)

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 14:45 -0500, Clark Williams wrote:

> I can see I'm on the losing end of this argument.  My first suggestion
> would have been to use mmap to map the status file, but re-reading
> Dan's email, my guess is that's not significantly different from
> reading the file. And on the plus side, we can pass structured data
> using XML-RPC, so that might "suck less" :).
> 
> Let me just state two things and then I'll shut up on this issue:
> 
> 1. I think that adding XML-RPC has great potential to be a Pandora's
> Box, in terms of potential code bloat.  We need to be on guard to
> avoid the "Now that we have XML-RPC, let's add this feature!". Please
> remember that the intent behind mock is to rebuild an SRPM inside a
> chroot. Everything else is secondary.
> 
> 2. We need to hear from Dan as to whether the likes the idea. My guess
> is he will since plague already has XML-RPC elements.
> 
> Clark "Back in my day we didn't need fancy XML-RPCs!  We had DCE!"
> Williams

Just for 2cents, I'd like to make sure we don't forget the other use
cases of mock:

1. in brew
2. standalone with just a person in front of a terminal


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