[IPython-dev] api between kernel, web server and frontend

[Fernando Perez]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> While IPython will always ship with a non-OMQ version, for things like
> you are talking about, I don't see 0MQ as optional.  I simple don't
> think there is another good transport layer (at least not one that is
> pure python and more lightweight that 0MQ).

Just to add context, I think Ondrej's view (at least that was my view
when we worked on this) is that there could be non-0mq clients, such
as a web-based one, accessing an ipython kernel, and that what we
should agree on is the protocol description.  For *ipython itself*,
we're 100% committed to doing all communications over zmq, and for now
we don't have the time to write the http server wrapper around a
kernel, but if that were to exist, then others could connect to the
kernel over http.

I'm going to spend a bit of time now moving these docs over to ipython
itself, so we have a place to start putting down the protocol
description.

Cheers,

f