[IPython-dev] IPython-ZMQ about client and server division.

[Brian Granger]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for bringing this discussion to the list...
>
> Indeed, we'll do our best to help out here so that the discussions
> also can get the input from others are searchable in the archives,
> etc.
>
>> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Gerardo Gutierrez
>> <muzgash.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi everyone.
>>>
>>> This week, Omar and I were discussing about the fundamentals of this project
>>> (again) which apparently are not clear enough (at least for me).
>>> The thing here that I'm talking about is based on Omar's idea that every
>>> other frontend should connect to the client not the kernel, I'm referring to
>>> the *client* as a frontend because I think it should be written in the same
>>> manner as the other frontends, this is if the frontends were going to
>>> connect to the kernel, as I thought initially.
>>
>> The frontends should definitely all connect directly to the kernel.
>> There are a number of reasons for this, but the main one is that the
>> frontends may all go away while the kernel remains.  When a frontend
>> tries to connect to the kernel, there may be no other frontends in
>> existence.
>
> Does this make sense to you guys?
>
> Brian, should we move the message spec from the pyzmq toy example into
> IPython itself?  Ondrej and Mateusz were today in town for a
> py4science meeting and we went together over the message protocol and
> demo. They've been building a very neat web frontend, and it would be
> good to start standardizing the protocol properly in IPython beyond
> the little zmq experiment.  Are you OK with moving this over?


Sure, I think that is fine.  For now, let's create a new top-level
subpackage for this stuff.  Eventually, once it is stable, we an move
it into an appropriate location.

Cheers,

Brian

> Cheers,
>
> f
>



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Brian E. Granger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Physics
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
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