Re: loadable modules ?

Or have a simple just-text smsbox and aditional smsbox modules to
OTA, NSM, EMS, etc

;)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernino Lind" <[email protected]>
To: "Stipe Tolj" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 7:53 AM
Subject: RE: loadable modules ?


Dear developers,

Hope you enjoy your friday!

If a such plan is underway, please have in mind to make the freeze of the
CVS to have a stable branch.

Im very thrilled to see this project moving into the module direction. This
way I think we should consider to generalize the concept of modules and have
well defined description of how to add/write a module to bearerbox with a
generalist touch that modules should be capable of instanciating eachother
in various ways.

In this way a very fantastic complicated loadbalancing or routing would be
possible, or some crazy horse might add an on the fly python interpreter as
a module or...whatever. Looking at the increasing number of apache modules
it seems like human creativity does not stop just because C programmers
always make programs that leak memory ;-)

I really appreciate this direction,

--
med venlig hilsen / Best Regards
Bernino Lind +45 7021 0050
catpipe Systems ApS - www.catpipe.net
Best done *BSD solutions




-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Stipe Tolj
Sent: 21. februar 2002 20:10
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: loadable modules ?


Oded Arbel wrote:
>
> I think that would be very nice feature, and I see several things I can
> do with it.
> another revolutionary idea - wouldn't it be nice to load the smsc
> modules as dynamic libraries ? that way we don't need to build smsc
> modules that we're not going to use...

yep, that brings us to 2 API architectures we should think about:

1) module API to load-on-the-fly smsc modules (smpp, emi2, at2, etc.)
2) module API to load-on-the-fly sms-services (so that there is no
need to SIGHUP smsbox for processing)

Stipe

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