Stephen --

Thanks for the pointer to netstrings. Cool idea!  

Also I like the dea of Squeak apps being able to talk XML-RPC and 
lightweight stuff like YAML or netstrings.


Stephen Pair wrote:

>>(Oddly, since I posted that yesterday, not a single person has tried out
>>the public repository...)
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>Very cool Avi!  I tested out the public repository and it seems to work very
>nicely.
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>Have you considered dumping XML-RPC in favor of a more lightweight protocol?
>I've started building protocols based on D. J. Bernstein's netstrings (see
>http://cr.yp.to/proto/netstrings.txt) ...it's very simple and makes it easy
>to build lightweight protocols.  Anyway, I think you might get better
>performance that way (you could support both a lightweight protocol and
>XML-RPC).  I've got a few methods that implement NetStrings if you'd like to
>use them.
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>- Stephen
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