Re: Larger than 32bit signed?

On 10 Feb 2006 07:15:02 +0000, [email protected]
<[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I don't think the lack of protocol version information makes much
> >> difference in this case.
> >Maybe I am overlooking something but the underlying API's would have a
> >chance to fall back to earlier versions and do some of the hacky
> >conversions described in this thread.
>
> What I'm thinking is that if you can write a program that falls back
> to the 1999 standard, then you might as well do _just_ the 1999
> standard.
>
> In other protoocols, there are cases where a multi-protocol
> communicant is able to work more efficiently with a new protocol but
> fall back to an older one when working with an old partner, but I
> don't see anything like that in new XML-RPC data types.
>
> The advantage of new data types would be that it's easier to write
> (and test, debug, and maintain) code.  If you have to additionally
> write the difficult fallback code, that ruins everything.  And if you
> don't write the fallback code, you have the interoperability problem
> where you have to worry about whether the particular client or server
> you want to talk to knows the newer protocol.
>

XML-RPC was built for simplicity as stated many times in this thread,
it was certainly not built to scale. I don't think the developer using
xml-rpc libs should be punished because nobody wants to change
anything ever.

The thing that has suprised me most about the replies here are the
preconceptions of this being  hard for everyone and everything. The
addition of common data types does not turn this simple transport
method linto asn.1 and it does not change the protocol completely.This
would be an addition not a redesign. If there are incompatibilities
with versions that are above you, then so be it. In growth comes
incompatibilities.

The above point is moot anyway since there is no way of telling what
version of the protocol one is using.


 
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