To xml-rpc or not to xml-rpc. Reporting mock state

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 19:01 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Perhaps I've been a bit overengineering this.  Do we really need a full
> xml-rpc just to report status?  After talking to our team, and seeing
> Mike's post, perhaps dumping to an xml file (with locking) is a saner
> solution and easier to deal with when wrapping mock up.  
> 
> I don't have any vested interest in any solution, I was just hoping to
> offer up options.

I posted a reply way down in the other thread.  If we do a file, lets
make sure to add locking to it.  As a start we could just lock the
current status file; even that would help.

Dan