[Idle-dev] Remote executution for IDLE

[Martijn Faassen]

Moshe Zadka wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, David Scherer wrote:
[snip]
> > I do suspect that some kind of "distributed
> > object" architecture is needed if things like a real debugger are to be
> > implemented in reasonable time.  Worrying about protocol issues at the same
> > time as trying to design a usable debugger doesn't sound like a recipe for
> > success.
> 
> Hence my allusion to XML-RPC, so you can implement your debugger. XML-RPC
> is simple enough it can even be implemented in C in a reasonable amount
> of time <0.5 wink>, but I haven't played as much as I'd like with
> xmlrpclib.py...

DOPY is also quite neat:

http://www.users.cloud9.net/~proteus/dopy/welcome.html

I've connected a Python on Windows to one on Linux with DOPY when I was
doing some experiments thinking about a 'look over someone's shoulder'
facility for IDLE.

> (Anyway, using xmlrpclib in Python is a pretty good way to get Guido to

You mean in IDLE, don't you? 

> include it in the Python distribution <0.3 wink>)

Regards,

Martijn