I like all the suggestions posted here and want to throw my support
behind them.
prisoner@eclipse.its.rpi.edu writes:
|
| Sorry for delays in replying, I got caught up in other affairs...
|
| > Second, I have heard a lot about maintaining who/what lists. I think
...
| Initially, I liked this idea a lot... then I realized something:
|
| This causes a duplication of the database in both the server and
| client, and might begin to cause skew problems... sure - there
| _shouldn't_ be any... but we've had experience in th past that it
| _does_ happen... (ie - Clover).
...
| > Lastly, (I'm sure people are glad to hear that) I have the following
| >suggestions for server->client information sharing:
| >
| >%who object user_name [user blurb] state onsince last_input (flags)
| >%what object disc_name disc_title created last_input flags
| >%event object event_name event_time {recips,subjects} {variant_client_info}
|
| Right on the mark... {: this is almost exactly what I've been looking
| for...
...
| > Now, Prisoner "harp[ed]" in his last message about all the other tables
| >in the database. I suggest that any infromation which does not comprise
| >the user is open for viewing. Just as there are now client commands to get
| >the verb list, there should be client command to get any other tabular
| >information in the server, or query for information. Let there be #$# info
| >and #$# finger and other such commands!
|
| How about something more general, both for the server and client
| (again, for pubvlic infromation only...) say...
| #$# query person label
| would return
| %query person label value
| or
| %query_rejected person label "reason"
|
| (My thoughts on this one would be to query the gender if no icon is
| set for the person to create a "default" icon... or some such...)
|
| > I am deeply interested in hearing what people think about this, and what
| >people's plans and ideas are. What is above is only a half-baked loaf! :)
|
| I'm pondering it all as well... It's clear we're going to have to
| build some sort fo database... tho everythign we'ev talked about will
| make something like lhub easier.
|
| >christian
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