Re: EB-lite feature requests

On Friday 07 March 2003 22:46, Malcolm wrote:
> On Friday 07 March 2003 4:48 pm, Meredydd Luff wrote:
> > Right, I have a little time for EB-lite again. I'd just like to poll the
> > members of this list - which features do you reeally really want next in
> > EB-lite? How many features would you deem necessary before it's a viable
> > alternative to old EB?
>
> Logging. That's pretty much the only major one I'm missing.
> I'd even help implement it if it's something I can be pointed at.

Yes please! OK, step up, step up for design decisions!

The real problem is that as far as the core is concerned, there are no 
"conversation" sessions. Messages just come and go - whereas in old EB, a 
conversation could be clearly delineated by when a user opened and closed the 
conversation window, there's no such construct in eb-lite. So - how do we 
divide up logs? You can't really expect to transfer the entire log at once 
over to the client machine if they just want to look at a specific bit, and 
in any case they would just have to separate it anyway - individual logs get 
too big.

The other challenge is transferring logs to the client machine. Currently, 
GUIcomms parameters are limited to 16k, but that could change. Or we could 
just encapsulate a stream as a series of packets. Thoughts?

Meredydd
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