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

Gerardo Gutierrez muzgash.lists at gmail.com
Wed May 19 00:53:58 EDT 2010


2010/5/13 Omar Andrés Zapata Mesa <andresete.chaos at gmail.com>

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> 2010/5/13 Gerardo Gutierrez <muzgash.lists at gmail.com>
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>> Hi everyone.
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>> This week, Omar and I were discussing about the fundamentals of this
>> project (again) which apparently are not clear enough (at least for me).
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> *The idea is that GUI use zmq-client to connect to the kernel, ipython-zmq
>  will have a console that will contain classes to facilitate the connection
> of any other frontend.*
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>> 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.
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>> This idea, I think, will lighten the tasks the other frontends will have,
>> but I think also, that the idea of having to rely on two processes for a
>> simple client/frontend (Qt,ncurses,etc) is not healthy.
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>> I'm not really sure if this questioning here is explained in the diagram
>> that Omar has in the wiki, but it's very important for both of us to clarify
>> this soon.
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>> I hope Omar reads this message soon so he can explain better his idea.
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>> Sorry if I'm wrong.
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>> *Best regards.*
>> --
>> Gerardo Gutiérrez Gutiérrez <http://he1.udea.edu.co/gweb>
>> Physics student
>> Universidad de Antioquia
>> Computational physics and astrophysics group (FACom<http://urania.udea.edu.co/sites/sites.php>
>> )
>> Computational science and development branch(FACom-dev<http://urania.udea.edu.co/sites/facom-dev/>
>> )
>> Usuario Linux #492295
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Ok, what I understand from this is that Omar wants to make the client as a
set of classes that the other frontends can import or inherit it.


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