[OGo-XML-RPC] Re: [OGo-Users] Idea / supporting o

Helge Hess wrote:

> On Freitag, 18. Juli 2003, at 23:25 Uhr, Tupshin Harper wrote:
>
> > FYI, I plan on doing a significant amount of work on an XWT frontend 
> > to Ogo, with the goal of making a *complete* Outlook clone. 
> > Discussion will be taking place (initially) on the xwt-users mailing 
> > list. Theoretically the existing XML-RPC daemon can be the *complete* 
> > xwt backend, though additionally functionality will be added there as 
> > needed.
>
>
> I look forward to it !
>
> Please subscribe the xmlrpc@ list to get help on that topic. Actually 
> I would like to get working a new, better XML-RPC API than what we 
> have today with the XML-RPC daemon.
> The daemons contained in SandStorm already have a much improved API, 
> but I would still prefer something based on ZideStore which is more 
> and more becoming a general infrastructure daemon, already speaking 
> WebDAV, WCAP and iCalendar.
> Also ZideStore supports "pluggable" protocols and operations, unlike 
> the current XML-RPC daemon which is monolithic.
>
> So maybe you should just tell us what operations you need, and we'll 
> see how we add that to ZideStore ?
>
> regards,
>   Helge

I have subscribed to the XML-RPC list, and asked some question here 
earlier today about documentation for the XML-RPC methods as well as a 
few other things. I see the list of methods, but no documentation on 
what the parameters to those methods mean(if you respond to that, please 
respond on the XML-RPC list).  Looking at the list of methods, it looks 
reasonably complete (at least enough to keep me busy for a while). I 
would be interested in your thoughts on what a better XML-RPC api would 
look like, and what benefits you see in the pluggable approach in 
respect to XML-RPC.

In answer to your specific question, the operations supported by xmlrpcd 
look like they are a relatively close match to my ultimate needs, though 
I don't have enough knowledge of the breadth of Ogo's features to know 
how complete they are yet. I certainly wouldn't mind moving those into 
ZideStore, but I'm completely unqualified to assess the pros and cons of 
that yet. I'll certainly let you know what I find as I move forward.

Thanks
-Tupshin