Re: [gentoo-dev] A constructive reommendation on stablity improvemt

[Kent Fredric <kentfredric@gmail.com>]

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On 10 August 2014 06:15, Igor <lanthruster@gmail.com> wrote:

> Communication protocol is already there - it's HTTP, method POST
> HTTP protocol is already with Python - CURL, WGET
> A reliable server ready to accept data from portage is all so there -
> it's Apache web server.



For the sake of this discussion, those protocols serve only as a channel.

You have to send some kind of data structure over that channel indicating
data about state.

This requires the data to have a defined format, and potentially a
versioning scheme for that format.

And not just a defined format, like JSON for instance, but a defined
structure of JSON representation with keys and values being clearly
stipulated.

You can't just send arbitrary freeform JSON to a random server and hope it
pulls sense out of fat air.

-- 
Kent

*KENTNL* - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL

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